Klymenko becomes head of new Revenues and Duties Ministry

 “I decree to reorganize the State Customs Service of Ukraine and the State Tax Service of Ukraine into the Ministry of Revenues and Duties of Ukraine, and to empower the ministry, which is being formed, to fulfill the function on the administration of a single obligatory state social insurance contribution,” reads a presidential decree.

The head of state instructed the government to submit a draft resolution on the new ministry and introduce the necessary amendments to other legislative acts in connection with its creation.

Earlier, the activity of the State Tax Service and the State Customs Service was coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers through Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov, who joined the previous government following his resignation as first deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and retained the post of minister in the new government.

The post of head of the State Customs Service was vacant due to Ihor Kaletnik’s election as an MP.

The president also signed a decree appointing NBU Governor Serhiy Arbuzov as curator of the new ministry, as well as of the Finance Ministry.

In February 2011, Klymenko was appointed first deputy head of the State Tax Service, and in November 2011, he headed the service after its chief, Vitaliy Zakharchenko, took up the post of Ukraine’s interior minister (which he retained in the new government).

Klymenko was born on November 16, 1980, in the town of Makiyivka in Donetsk region. He graduated from Donetsk State University, majoring in finance. In February 2010, he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk regional branch of the National Management Academy under the president with a master’s degree in public management.

In 1997-2005, he occupied management positions at commercial structures; in 2005-2010 he was deputy head of the specialized state tax inspectorate for working with large taxpayers in the city of Donetsk, and in May 2010, he was appointed the first deputy head of the then State Tax Administration (STA) in Donetsk region. In September 2011, he became head of Donetsk region’s STA.