29 September 2008, 15:40
According to the Bill (Re.№3022) it is suggested to implement rent payment for the market participants that extract ore at the rate of 30% of imputed value from the 1% of iron that ore consists of. This introduction will help to attract extra funds to the State Budget and to direct it on the citizens´ needs.
During the discussion the People´s Deputies stressed that the suggested by the bill amendments are illegal, contradict with the Law "On the taxation system" and are "discriminatory and unfounded".
According to the Law "On taxation system", rent payments are regarded to the state compulsory taxes. It is also presupposed that the rates, mechanism of its charging, privileges as to the taxation are not supposed to be established or changed by the other laws of Ukraine except the taxation ones.
The people´s Deputies consider that the adoption of the decision on the implementation of the new tax regarding the market participants that extract ore is not fully logical in the end of the year. The Members of the Committee pointed the attention on the fact that the item 7 of the Law "On the taxation system" contains demands according to which "that taxation rates and charges (compulsory payments) are established by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea and by the village, city councils in accordance with the laws of Ukraine on the taxation and can not be changed during the budget year".