02 December 2010, 18:39
Mykola Tomenko: The President's Motions to the Tax Code is a Form of Excuse before the Opposition and the Small Business for the Wrong Ideology of this Document
Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, declared that the motions of the President of Ukraine to the Tax Code and their unanimous support in the Verkhovna Rada is a form of excuse before the opposition and small business for the wrong ideology of this document.
M. Tomenko is convinced that analysis of the President´s motions to the Tax Code that have been voted in one package requires some time. (For reference: the motions to the Tax Code are printed on 25 pages, the motions to several Laws due to enactment of the Tax Code 9 pages). According to the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, all the motions might be reduced to the norms that were critisized by the opposition and the small business. "The first part of amendments concerned strengthening of the Tax Administration authorities, as it directly violated the Constitution in the part of presumption of innocence. The second part of amendments referred to paragraph 1 "a simplified system of accountability and reporting of the small business entities" of chapter XIV "Special Tax Regimes."
The Deputy Chairman stated that out of 4 thousand amendments to the Tax Code submitted for the second reading, a great number concerned the issues lobbied by the opposition. However, they are being presented by the President of Ukraine. According to Mykola Tomenko ,"It is a special form of humiliation of the Party of Regions leaders who used to select epithets to praise the democratic, European and ideal Tax Code drafted by the Cabinet of Ministers,the President of Ukraine and the small business." "Nevertheless, the President and the Government obviously deny the responsibility for it, which is shouldered on the parliamentary majority", he summed up.