KYIV, Feb 15 – Discussions about the sources of increasing the state budget for 2024 continue; receiving an additional 0.5% of the projected GDP looks realistic, as is included in the program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), while attracting large volumes for the stated indicative needs of the Ministry of Defense will require radical solutions, the head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, said.

"The Ministry of Finance is coming up with an idea about [increasing] the war tax for certain operations. For example, cellular communications, purchase and sale of vehicles. But let's wait for the final proposals. I don't see much potential there. The maximum potential that I see is UAH 40 billion that the IMF tells us about," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.