Putin united customs and tax payments into a single system – RBC

Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the creation of a unified system of administration of tax and non-tax (customs, pension, etc.) payments. In particular, the charges that are currently administered by the Federal Customs Service and Rosalkogolregulirovaniya will be merged “within the system the Ministry of Finance,” said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with the president.

According to Medvedev, it is expected that the Federal Tax Service ( FNS) will provide “methodical management, administration and collection of taxes.” In the same “methodical rails” and proposed to transfer the FCS Rosalkogolregulirovanie, as well as to enable and pension payments and payments to social funds. A draft presidential decree has already been introduced by the government to the president, Medvedev added.

At the end of December 2015, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov already reported about the beginning of the integration of information systems of the Federal Tax Service, Federal Customs Service and Rosalkogolregulirovaniya. The main purpose of these changes, he called the optimization of the process of collecting taxes on imports. “By integrating information systems, we can trace the chain of goods that arrive on imports and will be able to assess the correctness of the tax,” – said the then minister (quoted by TASS).

On the creation of a single mechanism for the fiscal authorities, Vladimir Putin He said in December as part of the message to the Federal Assembly. The President instructed the government to prepare the relevant proposals by May 2016. He noted that because of the gray schemes on payment of customs duties, excise taxes on alcoholic beverages, tobacco and fuels and lubricants budget loses hundreds of billions of rubles every year, calling it “outright theft».

In early December, at a meeting of the president with members of the government First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said that the government is trying to focus on “how to get additional revenue, rather than reducing those costs, which are provided in the law on the federal budget.” According to him, a large reserve is to change the system of administration of mandatory payments, “not only the tax and customs payments.” “It will change the system in the market turnover of alcohol and to reallocate functions Rosalkogolregulirovaniya”, – he said.

Last year, sources RBC in the government told us that in the reform of the control and surveillance activities on the principle of “one risk – One controller “function Rosalkogolregulirovaniya related to quality control of ethyl alcohol and alcoholic beverages, can be transferred to the Federal Service, and the functions associated with the products, taking into account – in the Federal Tax Service.