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"The AEO program, in the first place, is aimed at honest business, which is ready to work honestly, transparently, and openly", - commented Oleksiy Vorobiov, the EU4PFM National Expert.

It is about the new system of customs simplifications, as well as the procedure for obtaining and benefits of the status of Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Oleksiy Vorobiov presented to Legal High School students.

The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, international experts, and the EU4PFM Program have joined their forces to develop a Procedure for establishing the compliance of the conditions of controlled transactions with raw materials under the arm’s length principle.

On September 23rd within the round table framework, representatives of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Tax and Customs Policy, the Supreme Court Ukraine, the State Tax Service of Ukraine, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Reform Support Team of the Ministry of Finance, GIZ project and EU4PFM Programme in Ukraine discussed comments and suggestions from the expert and business community on the draft Procedure.

Specialists of the central office and the Main Departments of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, working in the field of tax control, took part in a two-day workshop "International and European practices on tax control measures in the informal economy."

The event was opened by Oleksiy Domanskyi, Deputy Director of the Department of Methodological and Rule-Making Work of the State Tax Service, and Paulius Majauskas, an international key expert on the taxation of the EU4PFM programme.

On September 22-23, 2021, professional discussions took place on the Concept of Implementation of Organizational Culture, developed with the support of EU4PFM, within PFM institutions in Ukraine.

Focus groups worked in the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the Accounting Chamber, the State Tax Service of Ukraine, the State Customs Service of Ukraine with the participation of international personnel management experts, Khrystyna Jakubaite-Revutiene, Lithuania, and Rastislav Vrbensky, Slovakia.

Jurgita Domeikienė, a Team Leader of EU Public Finance Management Program (EU4PFM), International Key Expert on Human Resources and Public Administration Reform, in an article for the magazine ‘Derzhsluzhbovets’ (The Civil Servant) spoke about Lithuania's positive experience in implementing project management in the public administration.

‘For the private sector, which includes businesses of all sizes, project management is an important tool that moves them forward,’ the publication said. ‘It helps to achieve the desired results effectively and save time… This is an integral part of the public sector development in European countries. Obviously, the question arises, how useful can this be for the public sector in Ukraine?’

On September 21, 2021, the press center of "Interfax-Ukraine" hold a round table on "Introduction of customs procedures in accordance with European practice: what changes Ukrainian business to expect?" Practical aspects ".

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Organisers are: Програма ЄС з підтримки управління державними фінансами в Україні (EU4PFM), Клуб експортерів України, Державна митна служба України, ІА «Інтерфакс-Україна».

On September 21st the round table on the subject "Introduction of customs procedures in accordance with European practice: what changes can Ukrainian businesses expect? Practical aspects” was held.

Organisers are: Програма ЄС з підтримки управління державними фінансами в Україні (EU4PFM), Клуб експортерів України, Державна митна служба України, ІА «Інтерфакс-Україна».

Komanda ekspertiv EU4PFM pratsyuye nad dydzhytalizatsiyeyu protsesiv ta vprovadzhennyam IT-rishenʹ v partnersʹkykh instytutsiyakh, vykorystovuyuchy krashchi praktyky YES razom z Derzhavnoyu podatkovoyu sluzhboyu Ukrayiny ta Derzhavnoyu mytnoyu sluzhboyu.Show morevolume_up222 / 5000

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The EU4PFM experts' team is working on the digitalization of processes and the implementation of IT solutions in partner institutions, using EU best practices together with the State Tax Service of Ukraine and the State Customs Service of Ukraine

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EU4PFM Team Leader, Jurgita Domeikene, and CPMA Deputy Director, Rasa Surauciene, told the journalists of the popular Lithuanian radio program “Public Money” how and in which way the money of European Union taxpayers spend in Ukraine to implement the economic part of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

EU4PFM Team implements these reforms together with Ukrainian state institutions – Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, State Tax Service, State Customs Service, Accounting Chamber of Ukraine.

"According to various estimates, depending on the methodology, the share of the shadow economy is 30 to 47 percent," stated Paulius Majauskaus, EU4PFM International Key Expert on tax reform at (the European Union's Public Finance Management Support Programme for Ukraine) during the first economic Lithuanian-Mykolayiv business forum that took place on September 15th in Mykolayiv city.

Paulius Majauskaus also noted that a public survey commissioned by the EU4PFM changed the stereotypical view on Ukrainian society that was largely loyal to the shadow economy.