Hundreds rally outside parliament to protest new business tax

Описание: (18 Nov 2010)
1. Wide of protest near parliament
2. Mid of protesters
3. Mid of woman blowing on plastic horn
4. Wide of police in front of protesters
5. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Lebedeva Irina, businesswoman from Irpen, Kiev region:
"We're here against the Internal Revenue Code. It isn't fair. We don't agree with the new version. The authorities want to destroy small and middle-sized businesses and to take us out of markets and trading."
6. Mid of protesters shouting: (Ukrainian) "Authorities out"
7. Protesters banging cymbals and shouting: (Ukrainian) "Shame"
8. Wide of protest
9. Cutaway of flags and banners
10. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Kravchuk Lidia, businesswoman from Irpen, Kiev region:
"We agree to pay taxes but we want taxes for the rich and rich authorities don't want to pay taxes. They want us to do this, this is not fair. It seems that all lawmakers are liars. And the president is a liar, because he promised to drop taxes for five years."
11. Various of protest
12. Wide of parliament building
STORYLINE:
Hundreds demonstrated outside Ukraine's parliament on Thursday to protest a draft tax law that they say favours big business and will choke small and medium-size firms.
The government of President Viktor Yanukovych says the new tax code being discussed in parliament will streamline the complicated Soviet-era tax system, and increase budget revenues to aid the recovery from the severe economic downturn.
But businesspeople say it will deprive small enterprises of desperately needed tax breaks.
"We agree to pay taxes but we want tax for the rich," said Kravchuk Lidia, a businesswoman from Irpen in the Kiev region.
"The president is a liar, because he promised to drop taxes for five years," she added.
Protests against tax reforms began in Ukraine on Tuesday.

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