The mayor of Kiev overturned the decision to deprive the UOC-MP tax benefits on the ground

The mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko said that he had signed the draft resolution abolishing discriminatory, in his vision, the city Council's resolution to deprive the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate preferential rate of tax deduction on the ground, informs the website of the UOC referring to the Ukrainian news Agency UNIAN.

The city Council of Kyiv on Wednesday at the initiative of the deputies from the nationalist "Freedom" to exclude the UOC-MP from the list of religious denominations, which are entitled to payment of land tax. Kiev elected officials explained his decision by the fact that the UOC supports LNR and DND, And as if " acts against Ukraine ". The Commissioner of the UOC-MP has said that it is shocked by the decision.

And the Klitschko said before, that the solution chosen by the people is unconstitutional and therefore has No legal force. According to him, in Accordance with the rules of the city Council, the Mayor may be made Within five days of the observation To the solution, And the MPs are obliged to revise it.

" Does not have the ability to be no privileges or restrictions on the grounds of religion and belief. In addition, when the society and thus the voltage, we can Not create grounds for secession on the grounds of nationality, language or religion " - presented on Thursday at the Internet representation of the word Klitschko.

The mayor of Kiev said that, as mayor, he has already signed a draft decision to cancel this " discriminatory norms ".


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