Putin about new taxes and prohibition of YouTube, Gref against Nabiullina and how to get an answer from a billionaire

The main thing about the economy from the direct line of Vladimir Putin is in the newsletter The Bell

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The straight line of Vladimir Putin lasted almost four and a half hours, but the president did not say anything fundamentally new about the economy during this time - but reassured Russians, excited (and not without reason) prices for gasoline, stuck the oligarchs who did not prepare for personal sanctions and promised not to close YouTube and Instagram.

• New taxes. Putin only said about the decisions that have already been made. It will not be: sales tax ( discussed at 4%), increase in personal income tax (Arkady Dvorkovich, who did not enter the new government, allowed his growth from 13%to 15%), and transferring it to a floating scale (this was discussed from 2016, but the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, who became a curator of the economy in the new government, opposed ). There were no questions or answers to increase VAT from 18% to 20% (and this option is now the most real ).
• Raising the retirement age. Here the president was most uncomplicated as possible: the increase should be approached “highly carefully and neatly”, the main thing is the income of pensioners, “we will discuss and talk about the measures that are proposed [by the government]”. In practice, this means that the increase will be, as Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke more than once, but its parameters have not yet been defined. At the last meeting in the government, no decisions were made, the sources of The Bell said.
• Gasoline prices. This question was one of the most anticipated-only for May gasoline prices in Russia rose by 5.6% and exceeded 40 rubles per liter of AI-95, and somewhere they got to 50. Then Putin had a ready answer-he recalled that the authorities reduced excise taxes on fuel and promised if necessary to increase the export fee for oil products so that the offer on the domestic market has grown up in 2011 year, and it helped.
• Problems of oligarchs abroad. Separately, Putin commented on the refusal of the British visa to Roman Abramovich - “I warned about what the development of events that we are faced today is possible. And warning about this, he recommended that our business keep his capital in his homeland, in Russia. ” Here it is worth paying their due - he really warned, and twice - first two years ago , and then - at the end of 2017, shortly before the imposition of sanctions. But, as practice has shown, not everyone has prepared.
• Telegram and restrictions on the Internet. We write down for history: Vladimir Putin said in direct text - you will not restrictions on YouTube and Instagram in Russia; social networks and instant messengers will not prohibit. And yet - "Safety issues in the first place."

What am I to me?

Putin's answers to questions about the economy show: final and fundamental decisions on any of the key issues - taxes, raising the retirement age, and a change in the budget rule - no. So, until July, when the spring session of the State Duma ends, you can wait for any changes.

MONEY

ATMs under control

Rosfinmonitoring is going to draw up lists of foreign states, whose banking cards will be subject to mandatory control. Such a bill bydecision of the government should soon be submitted to the State Duma. Whose bank cards will fall into the field of view of the service is unknown (its representative did not respond to The Bell's request). Many operations worth more than 600 thousand rubles are already in the field of view of Rosfinmonitoring. In addition, the withdrawal of money in Russian ATMs from the cards of foreign banks is hardly a common practice. But if you have undeclared accounts abroad, Rosfinmonitoring, it may be easier to find out about this.

"It was like a conversation on Skype"

From July 1, a single biometric system will earn in Russia, with which banks will be able to provide Russians who have surrendered biometric data, remote services, and the FSB will follow all this. Today, Rostelecom, the Central Bank and “Post Bank” showed how the system will work. The Vedomosti correspondent passed the first data anddescribed the process: “It was only necessary to look at the webcam for several seconds, after which the sequence of numbers from 0 to 9 to record the voice was completed <...> on this, the delivery of biometric data was completed, it was like a conversation on Skype.” It is worth reading to everyone who is ready to trust the state for the convenience and accessibility of loans.

Do not treat me

“We have cool guys sitting in the regulators, there are a huge number of them, and there is a very large intelligence. They began the process of [tightening regulation], and nothing will stop them in making it to the end, ” - so German Gref today suddenly collapsed on the Central Bank. The head of Sberbank did not like Elvira Nabiullina's plans to introduce restrictions on loans to M&A transactions and tax lending. Gref believes that the Central Bank should not fight instruments, but with schemes and not try to treat the entire banking system with one tablet.

PRACTICE

How to write an IMIL so that a billionaire answered him

The 28-year-old Liz Vesisel was able to quickly succeed-after studying, she got a job at Google, and then founded and now leads the startup to search for work for millennials Wayup (3.5 million users and $ 27.5 million attracted investments). One of the tricks that accelerated her career rise is the ability to write “cold” email messages correctly to famous and successful people. So, in college, Vorsel thought to engage in venture business and therefore decided to turn to Roilof Boto to the head of one of the most influential venture funds in the Sequoia world (he, of course, was not familiar with her), who recommended that she go to Google. InC. tells about the five main rules of the Wessels when compiling “cold” letters.

Sharing Economy wins

The main competitor to Uber in the USA - Lyft - conducted a global redesign of his application. According to Wired (paid material), the company changes not only design, but also ideology - now the application should maximize customers to use regstering (joint trips of different users). Lyft expects that by 2020, 50% of trips will be registering. Formally, the company takes care of the ecology (more customers in one car-fewer harmful exhausts), but in fact the matter (surprise!) In money: Lyft is estimated at $ 11 billion, but still suffers losses, and with the help of Radshet, you can “squeeze” a larger tariff in one trip.

Peter Mironenko