Saakashvili Supports Tax Exemption for Media

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili instructed Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli to ensure that the press is exempt from taxes in the new draft tax code.
 
?The funds received from advertising are not enough for the existence of a free media and the state budget should not be replenished at the expense of the press,? President Saakashvili said at a news briefing on December 8.
 
Draft of the new tax code will be discussed by the Parliament in its second hearing on December 9.