The memorandum on cooperation to promote the recovery and development of Ukraine was signed by the Ukrainian Business Council and the CASE Ukraine Center for Socio-Economic Research, which implements the “Price of the State” educational project. Both organizations decided to join forces to ensure sustainable economic development of the country, build an “open access” society and work on tasks that will lead to the creation of inclusive economic institutions.
The signing of the document took place on Thursday, September 21, with the participation of members of the Ukrainian Business Council: Mykhailo Nepran, Grigol Katamadze, Anatoliy Dolyny, Borys Emeldesh, Yuriy Peroganych and other members of the URB. On behalf of CASE Ukraine, the memorandum was signed by Dmytro Boyarchuk, executive director of the CASE Ukraine Center for Socio-Economic Research.
The Ukrainian Business Council and the “The Price of the State” project demonstrate a common vision of the need to modernize all spheres of social life. The key principles of such modernization should be demonopolization of the economy, decentralization of power, deregulation, de-oligarchization of the economy, tax liberalization, de-offshoreization and detinization of the economy, participatory democracy and e-governance, protection of economic rights and freedoms of businesses and every citizen.
The parties call the institutional reform of inspection, control and law enforcement bodies priority tasks for reforming the country; liberal reform of the tax system, ensuring the presumption of innocence of taxpayers and modernization of customs legislation; simplification of administration, reduction of discretion and minimization of corruption opportunities; preservation of a simplified taxation system, promotion of legal micro- and small entrepreneurship; debureaucratization, minimization of state intervention in the economy, promotion of internal and external fair competition.
“Understanding the urgency and urgency of implementing the tasks specified in the Memorandum, the signatories agreed on joint comprehensive support and assistance in their implementation. The priority area of cooperation is education, development of entrepreneurship, economic education of citizens and implementation of the tasks specified in the Memorandum into the legislation of Ukraine,” the document says.