{"id":11607,"date":"2016-03-21T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.kse.ua\/news\/2016-03-21-djankov-podcast-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-21T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:00:09","slug":"2016-03-21-djankov-podcast-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/kse.ua\/en\/news\/2016-03-21-djankov-podcast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Minister of Finance of Bulgaria: Ukraine needs speedy and radical tax reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--------------------------------------- Old id: 1521 ------------------------------------- --><\/p>\n<div>As a part of <b>#UkraineReforms<\/b> project, the Kyiv School of Economics continues publishing video podcasts with successful reformers from neighboring countries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ukraine needs speedy tax reform, the taxes should be adjusted quickly and radically, especially, when political environment is unstable, according to <b>Simeon Djankov<\/b>, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria. \u00a0At the same time, the government has to look for alternative sources of public revenues, which can be found in privatization, indirect taxation.<\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u201cI think every country is going in the next 10-15 years to move towards indirect taxation system \u2013 taxing labor less and taxing capital more because all of Europe \u2013 Ukraine included, my own country Bulgaria included is having issue with demography,\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Mr. Djankov says. <i>\u201cThat means that social security taxes should be lowered over time, including in Ukraine, and the personal income tax, which is a sort of a labor tax, needs to be lowered as well.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>Simeon Djankov visited Kyiv and Odesa in February as a part of #UkraineReforms project. <a href=\"\/download.php?downloadid=606\">Here <\/a>there are key takeaways from his visit.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhxmJynBgWE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>#UkraineReforms was launched in November 2014 by Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (hyperlink http:\/\/www.martenscentre.eu\/) \u00a0in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kse.org.ua\/\">Kyiv School of Economics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rpr.org.ua\/en\/\">Reanimation Package of Reforms<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strongertogether.org.ua\/en\/\">Stronger Together<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More videos with prominent politicians from neighboring countries are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kse.org.ua\/en\/reforms\/ukraine-reforms\/video_lectures\/\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of #UkraineReforms project, the Kyiv School of Economics continues publishing video podcasts with successful reformers from neighboring countries. 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