The devaluation of the hryvnia on the interbank market to more than UAH 13/$1 is a dangerous thing, candidate to the post of Ukrainian president and former head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said.
"We know what entails the sharp devaluation: unleashed inflation, a sharp fall in living standards of the people and a jump in protest moods," he said at the Kyiv Forum " On the Fault Line: to be Secure In – Between" on April 10.
Poroshenko added that until recently the problem was absent among the requirements of protesters and he made sure of this when he recently visited Odesa, Kherson and Mykolaiv.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said that the situation with the hryvnia exchange rate and the outflow of deposits worsened when separatism flared up in the eastern part of Ukraine.
"We'll cope with this," he said.
Commenting on the recent tax changes on the financial market, Poroshenko said that in the present conditions the introduction of taxation of interest rates for large deposits under the progressive scale is justifiable, while the flat scale would have been unfair.
The candidate to the post of Ukrainian president said that the fee for currency exchange transactions introduced recently could be canceled.
"The sense and subject of taxation causes certain questions. This discussion is open," Poroshenko said.
As reported, the National Bank of Ukraine on April 10 decreased the official hryvnia exchange rate from UAH 11.8784/$1 to UAH 12.6179/$1 – a new historic record.
