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Published: August 31st, 2016

The Russian government did not accept the Ministry of Finance proposal to mobilize additional revenue

"The government continues to work on the budget for 2017 and 2018-2019," – Shuvalov said after the meeting on the budget.

On Wednesday, the newspaper "Vedomosti", with reference to the informed sources said that the Finance Ministry has prepared proposal to increase budget revenues for the meeting in Shuvalov's. Among them - an increase of one percentage point in each of the key taxes - income, VAT, personal income tax, business property insurance premiums. It can bring a budget from 170 billion to 324 billion rubles.

It had also been proposed to complete the accelerated tax maneuver in the oil and gas industry, to increase excise taxes on tobacco, to enter the excise tax on beverages with sugar added, to introduce VAT on Internet trading, to increase dividends in state-owned companies, to refuse to pay pensions to working pensioners with a certain level of income, and others.

In total, the Ministry of Finance proposed measure as the newspaper notes, could bring the budget in the years 2017-2019 nearly 2.5 trillion rubles in addition.

Co-Chair of MEF Konstantin Babkin

Someone thinks that the higher the taxes, the more money in his possession. Meanwhile, everything is exactly the opposite. Russia's economy is strangled with taxes, and the way to revive the economy - its decrease. The decrease in the first place, for the non-primary sector and to those who carry out modernization. While it does not understand, we are in a crisis. In the meantime, we rejoice that not all bad ideas are entered.

Source: lenta.ru