The Federation Council protected the rich from tax hikes
11/07/2020
The bourgeois state guards the income of big business
Elena Perminova , deputy head of the budget committee of the Federation Council , opposed the idea of raising the tax on wealthy Russians, LENTA.RU reports. The official explained her opinion by the difficult situation in the economy and the inexpediency of increasing pressure on business and citizens.
Elena Alekseevna noted that the budget has already been drawn up, no changes will be made to the second reading, and the flat taxation scale is being revised as it is.
The proposal to increase the personal income tax rate to 20% and 24% on incomes over 12 and 24 million rubles per year, respectively, and to return to the rate of 24% on income tax was made in the response of the Higher School of Economics on the draft federal budget for 2021 and the planning period of 2022 and 2023 years.
The Ministry of Finance confirmed that there are no plans to increase personal income tax and income tax.
103 years ago in our country the working people took political power into their own hands and began the difficult path of building a society where there is no exploitation of man by man. Where a handful of wealthy owners of the means of production cannot appropriate the labor of many millions of workers. Where man is to man - friend, comrade and brother. Where the proletarian state stands to protect the interests of the working people.
Unfortunately, for almost thirty years now, power in Russia has belonged to another class - the big bourgeoisie. And officials are well aware of the interests of which citizens they should protect "from additional burdens", whose income should be protected. And these, of course, are not those Russians who can hardly make ends meet, live on incomes below the subsistence level and are forced to work even after retirement.
History teaches: the patience of the people is not unlimited. The growing gap between rich and poor will inevitably lead to increased activity of the disaffected masses. And the working people must be ready to competently take advantage of the emerging chance to transform society.
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President Putin, servant of capital
03/31/2015
What gifts does the Putin regime make to capitalists
What do you think is the main thing for the country in terms of foreign sanctions? Support for the most vulnerable segments of the population? Improving the efficiency of public administration? Reducing public spending on luxury? Let's listen to President Putin, who, speaking recently at the Russian Business Week of the RUIE, said :
Putin is a servant of the oligarchs
“Further expansion of freedoms for business is the best response to all external challenges and restrictions. Therefore, we will certainly continue to create the most favorable conditions for everyone who is ready to invest in the domestic economy and industry, in the development of technologies and modern jobs. "
The question is, why are freedoms for business in general somehow limited? Is it only by the evil will of corrupt officials? Or, first of all, for the reason that business for the sake of profit is ready to neglect any public interests, health and well-being of citizens?
But let's return to Putin's speech, in which he assures business that it can always count on state support:
"Dear colleagues, it is possible to overcome the unfavorable economic situation, to enter a sustainable growth trajectory only through partnership between the state and business - of course, without trust, it is impossible here - through a common understanding of the country's strategic objectives and consideration of mutual interests."
Let's see what kind of support the Putin regime provides to business and what follows from this for the workers.
First of all, the government is planning a large-scale amnesty for capital received with various violations of the law. To legalize capital, it is not even necessary to return it to Russia. It is enough to transfer it to a country not included in the so-called FATF blacklist. There are, however, only two such countries: Iran and the DPRK. Although the result of the amnesty it can get , Russia .
True, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov, the government does not even want to call it an amnesty, so that it does not work out that citizens indirectly confess to offenses:
"They should only designate their property and be free from those types of responsibility that are prescribed by law."
As Putin stated earlier :
"If a person legalizes his funds and property in Russia, he will receive firm guarantees that he will not be dragged to various authorities, and asked about the sources and methods of obtaining capital."
Interestingly, when it comes to public protests that the authorities call "extremism" , Putin urges prosecutor's office to immediately and toughly respond to them. When it comes to actual crimes committed by the bourgeoisie, he organizes the amnesty.
Simultaneously with the amnesty, "deoffshorization" is being carried out, that is, measures that facilitate the withdrawal of capital from states, where it can be sheltered from taxes. This "deoffshorization" is accompanied by the intensified creation of internal offshore companies in which businesses can hide from taxes, while avoiding possible sanctions from the owners of foreign offshore companies. Crimea becomes such an internal offshore , as well as the territories of advanced development (TOR) being created in the Far East. The ASEZ law came into force on March 30. TOP residents are supposed to be released from property tax, from VAT, from income tax, from part of insurance premiums.
In addition, it is assumed to exempt private companies operating in the field of social services from income tax. Thus, the state seeks to strengthen the commercialization of the social sphere, i.e. turn social guarantees into profitable services.
The same commercialization is being carried out in the housing sector. Moreover, it is carried out in the form of concessions, in which private companies providing housing and communal services will be subsidized at the expense of the budget . The state guarantees the profitability of investments, which means that the investor does not bear any responsibility for the efficiency of his business - all costs can be passed on to the budget.
As we already wrote , it is supposed to facilitate large companies to obtain tax benefits by disguising themselves as small and medium-sized businesses. First, the revenue ceilings for small and medium-sized enterprises will be doubled. Secondly, the share of participation of legal entities in the authorized capital of these companies will be increased from 25 to 49 percent. That is, some firm will be able officially to 49% belong to the corporation, the remaining 51% to its top management, but at the same time it will have tax incentives as a medium and even small business entity.
Meanwhile, the government is preparing another gift for the banks . We are talking about a bill according to which the state will help creditor banks in the event that borrowers-legal entities cannot pay off their debts. That is, they plan to introduce a system according to which the bank takes the profit from lending for itself, and the risks associated with the possible bankruptcy of the borrower are borne by the state.
However, bankers want for themselves even more generous gifts from the state. The Association of Regional Banks of Russia (ARBR) recently proposed zeroing the tax on dividends that banks pay to shareholders. Fortunately, the Ministry of Economic Development did not support this initiative.
Thus, businesses, especially those that have merged with the state and are able to fully use the opportunities provided to them, are increasingly exempted from taxes. This means that the burden of maintaining the state is increasingly being shifted onto the shoulders of the working people.
The number of all kinds of business inspections is also decreasing. Rostechnadzor alone reduced the number of scheduled inspections in the field of industrial safety in 2014 by almost 58%. This means that there will be less safety at work, and violations of workers' rights will more often go unpunished.
The privatization of the most tasty morsels of state property is also continuing. True, for the period 2010-2014. the budget received from privatization only 21% of the planned proceeds. The audit also found that the sale of the largest state assets took place in conditions of insufficient legal regulation, without the necessary level of competition. Simply put, the squandering of state property that began in the 1990s continues to the delight of the oligarchs.
And Russia, represented by the Putin government, seeks to please not only local capital, but also foreign capital. For example, the Ministry of Finance is going to open access to the country's strategic companies for Chinese banks, even if they do not meet the established requirements and have an authorized capital of less than 5 billion rubles. The Russian authorities are also ready to provide access to Chinese companies to strategic oil fields .
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) also actively attracts foreign moneybags. 40% of all funds that he invests belong to the leading funds of Arab countries such as the UAE and Qatar. So the Arab sheikhs will receive profits from the new electricity metering system and the Central Ring Road.
And what about the business itself? Is he effectively using all these numerous gifts from the government for the benefit of the country and its people?
In January 2015, Russian banks exported $ 1.6 billion in foreign currency from the country - 13.6 times more than a year earlier. This, of course, is far from the entire volume of capital outflow - this is just what the banks took out in cash.
In general, in 2014, $ 151.5 billion "flowed away " from the country , in 2015, a leakage of $ 70 to 120 billion is expected. And you should not be particularly happy about the reduction in outflow, do not forget that the dollar by 2015 became hardly 2 times more expensive, so the ruble profit in dollars has become less impressive.
At the same time, the wear of equipment in a number of engineering industries exceeds 80%. That is, the profit is exported, and the Russian industry continues to degrade. The government pretends to care about the profitability of the business in order for the business to invest its profits in the development of the economy. And the business simply takes out this profit.
Why is the bourgeoisie exporting currency? What do you think, given that in 2014 the sale of the British real estate Russians grew in 2 times? And if you consider that more and more Russian rich people are buying themselves citizenship of Malta, Cyprus, Great Britain, Singapore and other offshore countries? For example, last year Malta sold 400 passports, 90 of them to Russians. The price of such a passport is 900 thousand euros, so we are not talking about guest workers and not even about high-class specialists, but about the very oligarchic elite.
By the way, almost a million Russians have already notified the FMS of their second citizenship, and these are mainly citizenships of the United States, Great Britain and Israel. So, dear working Russian, be a patriot, support Putin's policy of creating the most favorable conditions for business, and these wealthy people will be grateful to you. If, of course, it suddenly occurs to them to remember those by whose labor they were created from capital.
Yes, business and the state have, in Putin's words, mutual trust and a common understanding of strategic objectives. Do you, dear readers, have confidence in them? Do you think that securing your interests is part of their strategic objectives?
Oleg Taranov
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