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Leader of the BYuT-Batkivschyna faction Ivan Kyrylenko has said the adopted Tax Code with presidential proposals does not solve the problems that small and medium businesses of Ukraine protested against.

"These problems are not removed – neither the problem of administration, nor the problem of gross expenditure, nor the problem of payments to pension funds, special funds," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

According to him, after this wording of the Tax Code was adopted "it will be impossible to work" for businessmen to work under the simplified taxation system.

Kyrylenko noted that his faction did not support the new wording of the Tax Code with presidential proposals. He also criticized the work of the Verkhovna Rada.

According to him, thus, there is no need for MPs to think, understand and even read the bills for which they vote. According to the faction’s leader, the pro-government MPs vote "thoughtlessly and recklessly."

Kyrylenko noted that amendments by the president were similar to the amendments submitted by the opposition during the debate on the Tax Code and which the Verkhovna Rada failed to support.

"We are categorically against such a procedure for the approval of laws," he said.

As reported, after the vote on the Tax Code with presidential proposals, the BYuT-Batkivschyna faction excluded seven of its members who had supported the document.