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The jeep will pay for everyone
An increase in transport tax will affect only owners of powerful vehicles from January 1, 2009, owners of powerful cars in Moscow will expect an increase in an average of 30%. Such changes include the draft law “On Transport Tax”, which will be considered in the near future in the first reading by deputies of the Moscow City Duma. It is planned to adopt the law in July 2008. Contrary to expectations, the increase will not affect car owners whose cars have a engine power not more than 125 hp, and car owners with an engine of up to 70 hp. They will still be exempted from paying tax. Among the innovations stipulated by the bill are the exemption from the transport tax of organizations - residents of the Special Economic Zone Zelenograd, war veterans and parents of disabled children. Military members, as before, will remain organizations engaged in passenger transportation, including owners of route taxis.When exactly a year ago, the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov signed a resolution on the increase from January 1, 2008, the transport tax rates for most categories of cars are one and a half times, all metropolitan motorists and human rights defenders caught an alarm. The increase should have touched all cars with an engine without exception more than 100 hp. This would increase the annual tax, for example, on a popular Ford Focus with a 2 liter engine, from the current 2.3 thousand rubles a year to 3.45 thousand rubles, and, for example, for Mazda 6 - from 2.4 thousand to 3.6 thousand rubles. There was an imperfect and the technique of calculating the device: for example, the owner of a car with a capacity of 100 hp. I would pay 7 rubles for horsepower, and the owner of a car with an engine of 101 hp. - Already 30 rubles for each “horse”. Because of all this, the law was sent by deputies of the Moscow City Duma for revision.
Smooth
Almost a year later, the bill again entered the consideration of the Moscow City Duma, this time in a significantly softer form. “The new bill is developed in such a way that the increase in tax does not affect 75% of the metropolitan fleet. It is as much as cars with a capacity of up to 125 hp, ”the head of the Department of Economic Policy and Development of the city of Moscow Marina Ogloblin, the head of the Moscow City Department of Economic Policy and Development of the city of Moscow, said yesterday.
The smooth scale has not yet been introduced, but the category of machines with a capacity of 100 to 150 hp, in which the rate of 20 rubles per 1 hp is now valid, was divided into two. The previous rate will be preserved for cars with a motor that issues 100-125 liters. p., and for 125-150 “horses” you will have to pay at the tariff 30 rubles for 1 hp. A car tax with a capacity of 150 to 200 hp It will be considered based on 45 rubles per 1 hp, and with a capacity of 200 to 250 hp. for 1 hp It will be necessary to pay 75 rubles instead of the previous 50. Cars are more powerful than 250 “horses” will cost even 150 rubles per 1 hp. Instead of the current 100. That is, for example, a tax on the Audi A5 with an engine of 3.2 liters and a capacity of 265 hp. will amount to 39.7 thousand rubles instead of the current 26.5 thousand.
However, with a high degree of probability, significant amendments will be made to the draft law. As the chairman of the regulations, the rules and procedures of the Moscow City Duma, Alexander Krutov, told Gazeta, may still introduce a smooth increase in tax to the first reading. “The question arises of what to do to those motorists whose capacity is, for example, 126 hp. According to this edition of the law, they will be forced to pay already 30, and not 20 rubles per 1 hp, as owners of vehicles with a capacity of 125 hp, ”says Alexander Krutov. “We plan to make amendments involving the introduction of a progressive scale, like the one that was used to charge an income tax.” The constant values of 125, 150, 200 hp will be based on the basis. etc. For a car with power, for example, 154 hp The tax will be charged as a 150-horsepower car plus an addition for additional forces. “Thus, a smooth transition from one category to another will be carried out, which will avoid border situations,” says Alexander Krutov.
Where is this disabled person?
In addition to owners of inexpensive cars, passengers of minibuses and buses can calmly sleep. Contrary to expectations, there will be no increase in tax on vehicles engaged in passenger transportation organizations except a taxi. And therefore, there will be no increase in the fare for this reason, which, of course, does not exclude the rise in price of trips due to other factors.
Lucky organizations registered in the Special Economic Zone Zelenograd. They will not pay transport tax five years from the date of registration of the vehicle. Also, the heroes of the Soviet Union, the Heroes of the Russian Federation, veterans and disabled people of the Great Patriotic War, veterans and disabled hostilities, disabled people of the first and second groups, former minor prisoners of concentration camps, as well as one of the parents of the disabled children are exempted from paying the transport tax. The term for paying the transport tax is also changing. The deadline will be postponed from April 1 to July 1 of the year following the expired tax period. Mindful of the ingenuity of Russian citizens, there is no doubt that very soon many jeeps will be belonging to disabled people or residents of Zelenograd.
The old truck is a luxury, not a means of transportation
The bill proposes to introduce a transport tax on freight transport, depending on its age. So, for trucks and buses, the age of which does not exceed five years, the tax rate will remain at the same level, and for trucks and buses over five years will increase by one and a half times. According to the deputies of the Moscow City Duma, this will stimulate the update of the capital's cargo vehicle. However, the incentive is dubious. According to experts, organizations rarely update the cargo fleet due to the fact that they do not have funds for this, and the increase in tax on old trucks and buses is unlikely to affect the situation.
However, the purpose of increasing taxes and cars remain unclear. As stated in the conclusion on the draft law “On Transport Tax”, a copy of which is at the disposal of “newspapers”, “the tax rate proposed by the bill will stimulate individuals to acquire low -leaved cars (which will partially solve the environmental problem and problem of traffic jams. -“ newspaper ”), and organizations - to regular renewal of the cost of repair work”. Experts, increasing the tax on powerful cars will not force their owners to transfer to cheaper low -leaved ones, and new high -tech engines allocate fewer harmful emissions into the environment, than low -power Lada.
Transport tax rates in different regions of Russia
| Up to 100 hp (up to 73.55 kW) inclusive | 7 (up to 70 hp - 0) | 7 | 20 | 11 | 8*/12 ** | 25 |
| 100-150 hp (73.55-110.33 kW) inclusive | 100-125 hp - 20 | 20 | 35 | 19.25 | 15 | 35 |
| 125-150 hp - 30 | ||||||
| 150-200 hp (110.33-147.1 kW) inclusive | 45 | 30 | 50 | 50 | 45 | 50 |
| 200-250 hp (147,1-183.9 kW) inclusive | 75 | 50 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
| Over 250 hp (over 183.9 kW) | 150 | 100 | 150 | 150 | 150 | 150 |
*For cars over 10 years old
** for cars under 10 years old
Source: Regional Laws " On Transport Tax "
Why are you paying transport tax?
Victor Pokhmelkin, Chairman of the Motorists of Russia Movement:
- I cry it absolutely in vain. And besides him as a motorist, I pay a lot of money to the state, and of all of them, only about 9%goes on roads and road infrastructure. These interest are not only from the transport tax, but from all payments made by motorists - up to excise taxes on gasoline and payments for inspection and registration of cars.
These 9% do not suit me at all. The state just deceives me! In my opinion, in this situation, the transport tax is not needed, because it solves little and gives little, but is a real guard from motorists. Of course, the current transport tax in comparison with Soviet times can be said, modernized, but the fact that it is inadequately used and motorists-taxpayers do not receive the necessary services from it is obvious to everyone.
When I was a deputy of the State Duma, I raised the question of making all the information on the roads on the federal and regional levels on the costs and spending funds on them. But this proposal always deviated.
Leonid Yarmolnik, actor, producer:
“I still don’t know why I’m crying for.” This is in its pure form Krylov’s fable: you are to blame for the fact that I want to eat. I pay him for having been accumulating for a good car for a long time and bought it. And now they also have me for this - they take a transport tax from me in accordance with the cost of the car. I think that this is theft and some kind of anger, similar to the one when, starting since 1917, we all wanted to annoy in any way and take everything away from everyone.
It is one thing if we saw that this money is going to business, that they respect me on the road, that in Moscow the situation on the roads is changing for the better. But after all, everything happens by inertia: no matter how much they will tell us, we pay as many as fools. In this sense, no one protects us, and all the time I want to ask: when will they suppress so many money?
I pay a transport tax for my car more than 30 thousand rubles, that is, more than $ 1 thousand. I wonder what my car harmed them so? This question is absolutely not worked out and is similar to ordinary Russian lawlessness. The authorities are counting on people who have bought expensive cars with stolen money. But they, as earned on his car, they do not take into account.
Mikhail Delyagin, Director of the Institute of Problems of Globalization:
- I really liked the last statement of Comrade Luzhkov that the whole country should solve problems with the roads of Moscow.
There are two components in the transport tax. Firstly, at the expense of it, problems with roads should be solved. But they are not resolved, and this is evident at least by the fact that for the fourth year in a row the length of our roads has been steadily reduced, and last year they even reduced by 1.2% of transportation by not railway transport. And the second component of the transport tax is a luxury tax. The larger the engine of the engine of your car, the more tax you pay.
I am not a car owner, but I know that the transport tax is not very burdensome now and is not a problem for anyone. As for the owners of expensive foreign cars: if they have the opportunity to buy a car with an engine like a tank, then they are somehow not from their hands. It is the same as the owner of the mansion on Rublevka to complain about real estate tax.
Pavel Krasheninnikov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedure Law (United Russia faction):
- I do not cry, but my wife pays. It is assumed that if you pay this tax, then the roads will be better. True, so far it is not too noticeable, on the contrary, the situation on the roads in Russia has become worse. Yes, there are more cars, and following the logic of taxation, and the roads should become better (because the amount of taxes collected increases), but just look around.
And about what to do, our Minister of Transport should think. Recently, on the topic of his speeches, someone recalled that it is necessary to say something about the rural roads, which was true for: "Do we have rural roads?"
06/10/2008 / Andrey Biryukov, the survey was prepared by Alexander Sargin Material published in the "newspaper" No. 107 of 06/10/2008.