The government wants to increase VAT, Deripaska asks for state support, and Mints went to London

Putin wants to find money for the “May decree” of Putin by raising VAT to 20%. For a business working with a retail consumer, this is very bad news. Details - in the morning mailing of The Bell.

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One of the elements of the “configuration” of the tax system, promised by Anton Siluanov at the PMEF, may be the VAT growth of up to 20%, “Vedomosti” found out . Such a proposal has already been discussed in 2017, but then it was proposed to simultaneously reduce insurance premiums - now we are no longer about this.

• An increase in VAT to 20% is one of the options that will help to find 8 trillion rubles necessary to fulfill the May Decree Vladimir Putin. It can bring the budget an additional 2 trillion rubles. The state plans to take another 3 trillion rubles with the help of infrastructure bonds, 2 trillion - obtained by raising the retirement age, 1 trillion - due to changes in the taxation of oil workers.
• The possibility of increasing VAT (then up to 22%) was discussed in 2017, but then it was proposed to reduce from 30% to the same 22% insurance premiums to the budget. The main supporter of the reform (it was called “Maneuver 22/22”) was Anton Siluanov. Now there are no offers to reduce contributions. This is a “ordinary deception,” one of the members of the RSPP Bureau told Vedomosti.
• In addition to a direct increase in VAT, a preferential tax rate of 10% - now it is valid for food (except for delicacies), drugs, books, textbooks and children's goods. Last year, the benefit cost the budget of almost 550 billion rubles.
• Sources of Vedomosti emphasize: the decisions can still be revised, "everything changes very quickly and constantly." But there is little time for changes: Siluanov promised that the Duma would make a decision on the tax system back in the spring session, that is, until the end of July 2018.
• VAT is not a direct tax on the population, but in fact it is paid by the consumer: the business always paves the tax in the final price. The growth of VAT by 2 percentage points will accelerate prices by 0.8–1 p. Exporters will not affect the tax growth (when exporting VAT is not charged), and retail companies and manufacturing production will suffer most.

What am I to me?

If your company works with the end consumer in the competitive market, for you this is bad news: to increase prices in the conditions of falling incomes of the population for the fourth year in a row is a risky task, and business margins will inevitably decrease. The fall in the purchasing power of the population has already led to the crisis of the largest retailer "Magnit" - with an increase in VAT, the situation will become even worse.

MONEY

Who will help Deripaska

Following the “Renova” of Viktor Vekselberg, his detailed requests for state support to the government sent En+ Oleg Deripaska on May 15. Kommersant studied proposals that the company should save at least 40 billion rubles. Basically, they are reduced to discounts for UC Rusal on the energy market, for which other Siberian consumers will pay-electricity prices in the case of measures will increase by 13-14%, and housing and communal services tariffs will be increased.

It arrived in London

The owner of O1 Group Boris Mints and three of his sons, together with their families , left for London , the sources of Vedomosti said. “The situation was tense, it is calmer to leave,” one of them explained. The financial situation O1 was shaken after the reorganization of FC “Otkritie”, the company alloweddefaults by bonds, and now it can sell its main asset - O1 Properties. This is one of the main owners of class A office real estate in Moscow: the companies own 15 business centers with a total area of ​​743,000 square meters. m. Almost all of them can go to structures associated with the Region and Rosneft Group of Companies.

Oil again $ 75

The price of oil today fell below $ 75 per barrel - and this is after it has already lost more than 3%on Friday. The reason is the negotiations of Russia and the OPEC on the gradual increase in production after its joint restriction at the end of 2016. To increase the production of the country participating in the OPEC+agreement, they can start from the third quarter, said the head of the Ministry of Energy Alexander Novak on Friday.

Signals

Sobyanin is ready for a new date

Sergei Sobyanin (surprise) announced his participation in the elections of the Moscow Mayor on September 9, 2018. As the elections will be held, it is approximately clear - this year the Moscow government rely on mobilization of summer residents, having adopted a special law that allows voting outside the city. The main thing is that Vladimir Putin already has Sobyanin’s support: as RBC found out, the mayor of Moscow - among the governors who received the approval of the Kremlin to re -election for a new term. The list also has a colleague of Sobyanin Andrei Vorobyov.

PRACTICE

Caution, Russian hackers

Do not want to become an innocent victim of “Russian hackers” - restart your router and update it, recommends the FBI. This can save the device from the VPNFilter virus , which are infected with at least 500 thousand routers around the world. According to the US Ministry of Justice, the virus was developed by the Fancy Bear group, working for Russian military intelligence, and is able to collect user information, block their Internet traffic and much more. According to Cisco cybersecurity experts, hackers plan to use a network of infected devices for large -scale cyber attacks in June.

CEO in exile

We remember the story of how in 1985 Steve Jobs was fired from the Apple company he founded against the backdrop of disagreements with management. Recently, MIT published an archive video with his performance, where Jobs spoke about his new NEXT corporation, attitude to leaving Apple, consulting dislike, basically the principle of selecting good employees and a new approach to management. “Now I try to look at people from a longer prospect. In other words, when I see that something is done wrong, my first reaction is not to “go and fix” ... Now I think I can do to help this person learn, and not how to solve the problem on my own, ”the businessman said. Here you can see the performance itself and read the most interesting excerpts.

iPhone instead of keys

Soon your phone will be able to not only make calls, connect to the Internet, store files, pay for goods and services, but also open the doors. Apple plans to introduce a technology used to make contactless payments (ApplePay) to other applications. In fact, in Cupertino (California), the company's employees already have the opportunity to use a new development: when entering the office, they do not present a pass, but simply apply their iPhone. You can read more about this here .

Peter Mironenko