The project of the tax code aggravates problems of "shadow" salaries.

The project of the tax code accepted by the Supreme body in the first reading, only aggravates problems of "shadow" salaries at the small and average enterprises. Such thought was stated by the head of Federation of trade unions of small and average business of Ukraine Vyacheslav Roj, making comments on results of discussion UNIAN of the project of the tax code at the Economic Council public meeting at the Ukrainian union of industrialists and businessmen . "The main reasons of scale existence of "shadow" salaries are obvious, - V.Roi - this excessive tax pressure upon business and excessive powers of supervising bodies has told. In aggregate with corruption it not only constrains development of small and average business, but also leads to its systematic decline and almost full criminalization” .

In such conditions V. Roi is convinced, trade unions can't effectively protect the social rights of hired workers and force businessmen to deduce from "shade" the sizes of salaries.

«When the businessman doesn't see prospects of legal development of the business, and unemployment growth reduces labor cost then « shadow » salaries become inevitable for the objective economic reasons, - considers V. Roi  – now the hired worker in small and average business should choose: or the minimum official salary (and consequently – social vulnerability today and in the future), or unemployment. Clearly, the person chooses the first. And the trade union even if it is at concrete small enterprise, is powerless to affect this choice».

«At Economic Council session at the Ukrainian union of industrialists and businessmen almost all participants of discussion ascertained that the project of the Tax code doesn't give the grounds to expect improvement of conditions of business dealing. That is, it doesn't give to business of stimulus to development. Accordingly, such project if becomes the law, will even more complicate work of the trade-union organizations. « Shadow » economy and effective social protection are things incompatible. Therefore our Federation of trade unions of small both average enterprises will put also the modest efforts that the project of the Tax code has been cardinally processed», - such is the result of V. Roi .

As UNIAN informed , Supreme Soviet of Ukraine has approved on June 17th in the first reading the project of the Tax code submitted for consideration of parliament by the Cabinet.