The tax service recognized the EGAIS by an unsuccessful experiment

The head of the Federal Tax Service, Mikhail Mokratsov, sent the official letter to the State Duma chairman Boris Gryzlov "On the abolition of mandatory marking by federal special and excise stamps of alcohol products." In fact, this is the official recognition of the failure of last year's reform of the alcohol industry. She cost the market for three billion dollars of losses.

The indirect sign that the innovative proposals of the tax authorities will be approved by a positive response of the government for the draft law on partial abolition of the EGAIS prepared by the Ministry of Finance. According to the newspaper gzt.ru , without brands, EGAIS will cease to exist altogether.

The reasons for the abolition of federal special and excise stamps, the head of the Federal Tax Service of the Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mokratsov gives exhaustive: the brands under the new system disappeared by the tax component (for which, in fact, they exist), with the help of the brand it is impossible to certify the legality of alcohol products, and the EGAIS system, under which new barrel-coded stamps were created, is useless.

“The obligation to pay excise tax arises in the organization after applying the brand and the sale of alcohol products,” explains Mokratsov in a letter. “Even if the excise tax is not paid later, alcohol products will be considered in the current legislation in legal turnover.”

As a result, the introduction of new brands not only did not reduce the number of illegal products in the market, but also created a wide scope for the activities of illegal immigrants.

However, the main claims are directed against the EGAIS itself. "Currently, EGAIS provides only the maintenance of manufacturers, wholesalers, and the deposit of the barcode on the brand," is noted in the letter. EGAIS - an electronic system for accounting for the production and turnover of alcohol - was created (and throughout the year of a feverish market) precisely for the sake of tax accounting of each drop of alcoholic beverages produced and sold.

Now the Federal Tax Service offers to control the alcoholic market is easier: to cancel brands, and the differentiated excise rates make it unified. In other words, introduce the system "Pay Access and Sell". True, how to check whether the excise tax was paid for a specific bottle, the letter is not said.

A different opinion is held in the Ministry of Finance. On June 27, the TASS source in the financial department said that the Ministry of Finance does not plan to cancel excise stamps for alcohol. “This proposal will not be implemented. It is inappropriate,” said a source in the Ministry of Finance in response to a proposal to cancel the mandatory labeling of alcoholic beverages and EGAIS, expressed by Mikhail Mokratsov, head of the Federal Tax Service.