Specific responsibilities of the ministry include: • regulating customs fees and tax collection; • regulating administration of Ukraine's single social insurance tax; • defining state policy for combating violations of tax and customs law; • defining state policy for combating proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism; cooperating with the inter-governmental
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and other
anti–money laundering international organisations; • regulating issues related to financial control of public funds; monitoring compliance with accounting standards; administering lotteries; regulating securities issuances and certain precious metals and gemstone transactions; • analysing and forecasting public revenue, drafting mid-term Budget Declarations and annual Budget Laws; • coordinating implementation of the State Budget; • setting guidelines for budget planning; enhancing effectiveness of public financial management; • managing public and state-guaranteed debt; • regulating intergovernmental fiscal relations; approving within-country regional borrowing and provision of debt guarantees by local governments; • informing the general public about economic and fiscal policies of the state, as well as the results of implementing the state's budget; • assessing financial viability of regional development projects; • development and management of state-owned banks; • defining and implementing national policy on development of financial services and non-bank financial institutions (e.g. insurers); • cooperating with the
International Monetary Fund and other international financial organisations. == Senior leadership ==