Ukraine plans to restore pre-war tax system by July -Finance Minister

Ignazio Cassis, Swiss Foreign Minister, Howard Graham Buffett, James Cowan, CEO of Halo Trust, Alex Lissitsa, CEO of the Industrial Milk Company, Yuliya Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, and Denise Brown, United Nations official, attend the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, Britain June 22, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool

LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine plans shortly to reinstate government tax collection to pre-war levels in a push to comply with its IMF programme, scrapping exemptions and relief introduced since Russia's invasion, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko told Reuters.

The move would generate extra government income of up to 10 billion hryvnia ($271 million) for the remainder of 2023 once Ukraine's parliament has voted to restore it, Marchenko said in an interview late on Wednesday.