Tetiana Kirienko and Jerome Fournel discussed areas of cooperation in tax sphere

Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, published 07 July 2022 at 16:52 Chapter: News

Acting Chairman of the State Tax Service Tetiana Kirienko and General Director of the General Directorate of Public Finance of France Jerome Fournel discussed areas of cooperation and exchange of experience in tax sphere.

Tetiana Kirienko noted that Ukraine, as a candidate for the EU membership, faces important work on the implementation of the EU standards into Ukrainian legislation. Experience and consulting support of French colleagues will be extremely useful for Ukrainian tax officials in the framework of tax reforms.

“The main task for us today is to support business along with ensuring filling of the budget, which is critically important for the state. Therefore, our efforts are aimed at maintaining necessary balance. At the same time, we continue implementation of reforms that will allow us to strengthen work of the State Tax Service, and in this direction, assistance of our international partners is very important” – stated Tetiana Kirienko.

In turn, Jerome Fournel spoke about legal norms in force in the EU, shared his experience regarding functioning of taxation system in France, in particular, the value added and excise tax payment, the maximum digitalization of services, principles of ensuring trustful relations with taxpayers, etc.

Considering importance of practical experience for effective implementation of changes, the parties agreed on further cooperation in various segments of tax administration.