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The businessmen rallying against the new tax code on the Independence Square in Kyiv haven't changed their demands: a full veto of the Tax Code adopted earlier by the Verkhovna Rada, the dismissal of the government, and holding the next parliamentary elections in 2011.

A spokesman for the national coordinating committee of entrepreneurs of Ukraine, Volodymyr Dorosh, told reporters on Thursday that their representatives haven’t signed any memorandum with the government.

"These were strikebreakers (the representatives of the entrepreneurs who signed on Wednesday a memorandum with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine) and people who mistake wishes for reality," he said.

Dorosh said that protesters intend to hold a rally outside the parliament on Thursday.

As reported, despite the fact that President Viktor Yanukovych has vetoed the Tax Code and ordered that the document be amended and approved again, around 2,000 businessmen are still rallying on Kyiv’s central square.