The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft state budget for 2023: how much money is allocated for ecology shutterstock

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft state budget for 2023: how much money is allocated for ecology

Katerina Belousova

In 2023, costs for preserving the nature reserve fund will increase by UAH 3 million

In 2023, the budget of the Ministry of Environment will decrease by 7% to 10.8 billion hryvnias, compared to 11.6 billion hryvnias in 2022.

Such a project of the State Budget was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday, September 13.

She noted that in 2023 they plan to collect 45% less eco-tax – 2.7 billion hryvnias compared to the expected 4.9 billion hryvnias in 2022. Of them, 1.6 billion hryvnias go to the general fund of the State Budget.

The biggest cost reduction:

  • -51% for environmental protection measures – 111 million hryvnias, compared to 228 million hryvnias in 2022;

Boyko emphasized that eco-tax funds, in addition to carbon tax, should be spent specifically on environmental protection measures.

  • -18% on salaries;
  • -9% for measures to reduce CO2 emissions, 10.5 million hryvnias, compared to 11.5 million hryvnias in 2022.

In addition, the budgets of the following departments will be reduced in 2023:

  • -65% to the budget of the State Geological Survey, in particular, the development of the mineral and raw material base is no longer provided for;
  • -19% to the budget of the State Inspectorate.

However, in the State Budget for 2023, expenses for the preservation of the nature reserve fund have been increased – from 665 million hryvnias in 2022 to 668 million hryvnias.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that several types of environmental taxes, which enterprises must pay in a mandatory manner, exist in Ukraine.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, a list of enterprises was compiled, which pay the most environmental taxes in the period from January to October 2021.

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