The city mayor is concerned about the state of filling the city budget. And especially the budget-forming one – the personal income tax, which the city treasury is short of by almost 2 million hryvnias. According to forecasts, revenues from this tax should have increased by 20%, since wages have grown significantly. Instead, this year it received less than in the corresponding period last year. Therefore, Anton Kryvytskyi instructed to analyze the reasons for the shortfall, and also noted that from the next quarter there should be no enterprises in the city that pay their employees below the officially established minimum wage level. There are about 50 such enterprises in Lutsk. At the same time, the city mayor calls on tax officials to take a more thorough approach to analyzing tax reporting. Due to the superficial approach to this issue, the communal enterprise "Lutskteplo" was undeservedly "defamed" throughout Volyn as a malicious non-payer of state taxes. In reality, the payment scheme simply changed: until now the tax went to the regional budget, now it goes directly to the state budget. And at the regional level, those who are not familiar with the change in tax revenue are talking about a two-million tax debt of the enterprise, which does not exist. Moreover, no one has refuted the inaccurate information.
Due to limited revenues to the local budget, the financial department has been instructed to restrict any financing except salary payments. The economics department must review expenditures for the second quarter of the current year and bring them into line with existing financing.
The unstable payment by Lutsk residents for housing and communal services has again created a threatening situation in the work of "Lutskvodokanal": the enterprise has no financial ability to pay off debts for electricity and there is already an official warning about power disconnection from April 14. "Lutskteplo" also has a five-million debt for gas used in this heating season. The situation can only be corrected by intensifying both current payments for housing and communal services and restructured debt.
Anton Kryvytskyi also emphasized the issue of forming tariffs for communal services. The city mayor noted that the local self-government body is able to regulate only a very insignificant share of the tariff. Everything else – the level of wages, the cost of energy carriers, VAT, contributions to the pension fund, etc. – is the exclusive competence of the state. And the mismatch of tariffs to expenditures inevitably leads to the decline of communal enterprises. Anton Kryvytskyi is deeply convinced that tariffs should contain only economics and no politics. The "maidan" activity of political parties on this matter is populist and destructive, as it is based on the population's ignorance of the essence of the problem.
"Oblspozhyvspilka" – the owner of the two largest city markets – is also trying to manipulate the unawareness of entrepreneurs. The city authorities' refusal to extend the land lease agreement for the Central Market for 10 years with the requirement to bring the facility into proper condition is presented by the leadership of "Oblspozhyvspilka" to entrepreneurs as the local authorities' intention to close the market. The city mayor emphasized that today about 8 thousand jobs are occupied at the markets, in addition, the market fee accounts for almost 30% of revenues to the local budget, so there can be no talk of closing any of the bazaars. Another matter is that the Central Market cannot function in the form it has now. The city authorities are ready to immediately extend the lease term for 3, 5, 7 years as soon as the owner presents a project for arranging the market.
Also at the staff meeting, there was talk of measures to mark the 60th anniversary of the Victory. The Lutsk city mayor considers the most important thing to be the social protection of veterans and solving their everyday problems.