Budget 2025 pays special attention to investment projects

Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Tax Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, emphasizes that the feature of the 2025 budget is definitely the increased attention to the implementation of investment projects in various fields.

"Next year, a new system of "public investment projects" will be launched. In total, the resource for their implementation is almost UAH 256 billion, of which UAH 115 billion is financing under state guarantees on the basis of international agreements within the limit of state guarantees for 2025, UAH 71.9 billion is the receipt of funds from foreign states, international financial institutions and international financial organizations within the framework of existing projects, UAH 44.2 billion is the funds of the special fund of the state budget (however, they will need to repay the debts of previous years) and UAH 25.0 billion is the funds of the general fund of the state budget for financial support of the projects.

However, we would like to see specifics about them (in particular, which of them can be implemented quickly and will start "working for GDP" instead of creating new debts and liabilities (as it was the case with the projects of the former Ukravtodor or the National Agency for Euro 2012), how they will help reduce unemployment, what synergistic effect they will have on the national economy or state security), and shouldn't we start with smaller amounts of funding at the first, "experimental stage", redistributing some of the funds to more important goals?" - writes the MP.