KIEV, July 20 – Parliament has amended the Tax Code to reduce tax pressure on businesses.

A total of 233 lawmakers passed, at second reading, draft law No. 2004 on amending the Tax Code.

Presenting the document, chair of the parliamentary committee for tax and customs policies Nina Yuzhanina said that it envisages the transfer of powers to present generalized tax consultations to the Finance Ministry with their obligatory publication on the ministry's website.

According to the comparative table to the draft law, it foresees the inclusion of the requirement to the Tax Code, according to which supervision and other agencies are banned from using the audit certificate as grounds for conclusions regarding the relations of taxpayers with contractors in the tax notification which was not handed to taxpayers after the drawing up of the audit certificate or if it is considered revoked.