Sunday, April 5, 2009

NRF pours bitter business 0.5

Tax service offers at the time of the crisis to impose a new tax - on non-cash payments

Federal Tax Service (NRF) has invented, as a supplement the consolidated budget in 2009 to 1.3 trillion rubles. Letter of measures to ensure the replenishment of the federal budget by more than 900 billion rubles, while the budgets of subjects of federation - about 400 billion rubles, is directed to the government.

NRF offers waive the accelerated recovery of value added tax (VAT), to impose a tax on financial transactions in the amount of 0,5%, open access to tax the banking secrecy, to introduce the registration of VAT payers, and to extend the period of recovery of tax arrears to three years.

Draconian measures in the most economically disadvantaged in 2009 could lead to a reduction in the number of enterprises, and hence to a reduction in revenue next year.

Ghost obnalichki Returns

Tax on financial transactions NRF offers besiege all transfers of funds from one account to another yurlits in the payment of goods, works or services by charging them to 0.5%. According to Michael Mokretsova, the tax will force companies to abandon the mediators and to work under direct agreements. Additional revenues from this tax should amount to about 400 billion rubles, he must act only in times of crisis.

Offers NRF directly opposed to the ideas that the Government has adopted in recent years - reducing the "cache" in the calculation of yurlitsami and transfer of all payments in the banking sector. If you put such a tax, then. Naturally, businesses will be profitable to pay in cash, and banks lose their customers, "- said General Director of Tax Aid Sergey Shapovalov.

Banks NRF proposal for a tax on tax payments and access to banking secrecy, is reluctant to comment on. «The best option at the current time of crisis is to reduce the tax burden on business», - believes the chief economist «Alfa-Bank» Natalia Orlova. - Introduction of additional tax payments yurlits, even at the time, will push the business into the shadows. And it will affect consumers because the prices of goods will grow ». «If the tax payments will be introduced, it will have a desire to move from the business practices of non-cash transactions to the accounts for cash», - said Deputy Chairman of Board of OTP Bank Yevgeny Yegorov. - First of all, it will affect small and medium-sized businesses. We risk returning to what has long struggled. Actually, I do not understand why the crisis, when in many countries support the business tax cuts, we want to impose additional taxes. "

For direct access to the tax authorities to bank secrecy bankers also included a negative. «Actually, there is much debate in various countries over banking secrecy, - said a member of the Duma Committee on Financial Markets Pavel Medvedev. - Rational approach may be to recognize when a case of a complaint the bank takes action. But if the banks are obliged to open all of the information, it will simply meaning an end to the banking system in its current form. "

Club VAT payers

Other ideas are not new NRF. About the club VAT payers "back in 2007, actively advocated the Deputy Minister of Finance Sergey Shatalov. He stated that the Ministry of Finance is preparing a bill - the introduction of the club planned to taxpayers in 2008. This club could be out of a roster of contributors that meet several criteria (size of turnover, for example). Inclusion in the registry, to the intent of the fiscal authorities should mean that the tax company's trust, and it will not be problems with the VAT refund. NRF, in its yesterday's proposals counted 220 thousand organizations, which in 2010 would enter into such a club - they bring into the treasury 99% VAT. This measure, according to their calculations, should yield to the additional 500 billion rubles.

However, the proposal to establish the VAT club official to examine the alliances in the business has not yet been sent. In addition, RUIE attention that the methodology of calculation of NRF the economic benefits of these innovations in the open areas was not discussed.

However, last week's Committee on Tax Policy RUIE sent to the Ministry of Finance consolidated proposals regarding the bill on the order of the accelerated recovery of VAT, which is developed by the Ministry of Finance. Entrepreneurs offer set against VAT refund zayavitelny order. "If the right to a speedy recovery of VAT will receive, not all, it requires that the list of taxpayers approved by the Government. But to avoid discrimination for small and medium-sized businesses need a reliable system of bank guarantees - through authorized banks and the state with clear instructions about how they work, "- explained Deputy Chairman of Tax Committee RUIE Andrew Тихоновский.

As for the idea of VAT clubs, then to the entrepreneurs reacted critically. Fiscal authorities are supposed to unite those whom they deem fit - for certain criteria, such as size of turnover. However, this would mean reformatting the entire business chain, since the issue concerns VAT payments between any company, regardless of their size. A special order for big business would mean a fundamental change in its relationship with small and medium enterprises. In addition, the actual responsibilities of government to tax administration in the case of realization of this idea would be to shift to big business.

Fiscal shock

Business in the shock of tax proposals. "NRF proposes initiatives that directly contradict statements made by their leadership, and even compromise the Book" - believes the Vice-President RUIE Igor Jurgens. "We will oppose all proposals NRF. During the crisis, to support business, not to squeeze money out of the past as the tax it did before the crisis," - возмущается Chairman of the Business Russia "Boris Titov. Head of Machine-Building Plant "Salyut" Yuri Eliseev breeds hands: "During the crisis, any help other than raise rates on loans and tightening the requirements for a loan we did not get." In the Ministry of Finance yesterday officially refused to comment on the proposals of tax service.

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