The government is studying Yukos's proposal to resolve the debt to the budget

A letter from the Yukos oil company with a proposal to resolve the debt to the budget is at work in the relevant departments of the Russian government. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" informed source in the Government of the Russian Federation.

According to him, an official note by the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin is also studied with a proposal to work out the concept of creating an international investment bank.

"Both letters are being studied in the relevant departments of the government, they will be considered in accordance with the regulations of the Government of the Russian Federation," the source said.

He did not reveal the essence of the documents. “The terms of execution on these letters have not yet come, and it is not possible to talk about the essence of the problem,” the agency’s interlocutor explained.

On July 8, the company sent another proposal to settle tax debt. Yukos is ready to transfer 8 billion dollars of tax debt for 2000-2003 to the budget. For three years.

On the eve of this, the former head of the oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, invited the board of directors of the company to use a package of shares belonging to large shareholders to resolve tax claims of the government.

In June, the management of Yukos provided the main shareholders and the government with a plan to resolve tax claims, a source in the company said. According to him, the plan provides for the settlement of tax issues by extrajudicial order by restructuring debt, the sale of yukos assets to state -owned companies, and changes in the composition of management.