KIEV, Oct. 19 – Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko has asked the government and society to discuss how to reduce budget expenses in 2016.

"The ministry is ready to reduce budget expenses, but the issue of what expenses are to be reduced and what should not to be reduced requires serious discussion by the public and it also requires hard political decisions. Today, only tax rates are being discussed, and no one proposes concrete changes to expenses," she said.

Jaresko said that the planned tax reform should not result in the increase of the budget deficit in 2016 compared to 2015.