Part of the rent from the subsoil should be given to local budgets - expert
November 19, 2015
Today, rents on subsoil use come into the general fund of the state budget. This makes it impossible to control exactly what these agents are. This was announced today during the expert-analytical roundtable on the "Road Map to ensure the ability of local government representatives and local communities to implement social and economic benefits of projects for the exploration and production of unconventional hydrocarbons in Ukraine. The results of the project ", which SEC" Psyche" is held in Kharkov, said the adviser to the president of the association "Subsoil Users of Ukraine" Maxim Avramenko.
According to him, today in Parliament registered 2 bills, that could change this situation:
Law project №3038 «On Amendments to the Budget Code of Ukraine (concerning the ordering of receipt and use of funds for the rent for the use of subsoil for the extraction of oil, natural gas and gas condensate" (initiators - O. Belkova, R. Horvath, V. Sold, etc.) The document proposes a framework of distribution of the rental fee:
- 100% of rental fees for the use of subsoil for the extraction of oil, natural gas and condensate from the interior of the continental shelf and exclusive (maritime) economic zone of Ukraine and 95% of the rental fee for use of mineral resources for the production of oil, natural gas and gas condensate in the mainland part of Ukraine enrolling into the general fund of the state budget;
- 1.5% - in the budgets of cities of regional importance, the district budget, combined local communities;
- 1.5% - in the regional budget;
- 2% - in the budgets of local governments at the location (location) of the respective sites of bowels.
Law project №3038-1 "On Amendments to the Budget Code of Ukraine (regarding the equitable distribution of rent for the use of subsoil for the extraction of oil, natural gas and gas condensate)" (initiator -Kulinich A .i.) Offers the following distribution structure rental fee:
- 100% of rental fees for the use of subsoil for the extraction of oil, natural gas and condensate from the interior of the continental shelf and exclusive (maritime) economic zone of Ukraine and 90% of the rent for the use of subsoil for the extraction of oil, natural gas and condensate from the depths to the mainland part of Ukraine enrolling into the general fund of the state budget;
- 4% - in the regional budgets in place of oil, natural gas and gas condensate;
- 5% - in the regional budget or the budgets of local communities united in the place of oil, natural gas and gas condensate;
- 1% of the budgets of local governments at the place of production of oil, natural gas and gas condensate.
Remember, today, November 19, in Kharkov held expert-analytical roundtable on the "Road Map to ensure the ability of local government representatives and local communities to implement social and economic benefits of projects for the exploration and production of unconventional hydrocarbons in Ukraine. The results of the project. "
The organizer of the event, which is held in the Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine supports Science and Technology Center "Psyche."
November 19, 2015