The new tax is already today, coworking for $ 40 billion, Apple brings a new blow to special services

The government determined: VAT - 20%. Details - in the morning newsletter The Bell

The authorities have decided on the “setting up” of the tax system - already today, simultaneously with the bill on raising the retirement age, a document on increasing VAT from 18% to 20% can be included in the State Duma, “statements” write . The only concession to business is to maintain a preferential tax rate of 10%.

• The bill on an increase in VAT may be submitted to the State Duma on June 14, says one of the interlocutors of Vedomosti. On the agenda of today's government meeting, the first is the point on amendments to the Tax Code.
• The government has long been determined with which taxes to increase in order to ensure the implementation of the May Decree Vladimir Putin. The increase in personal income tax and the introduction of sales tax were discussed. The head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, insisted that money can be found without raising taxes - by raising the price of cut off from $ 40 to $ 45, beyond which oil and gas revenues begin to be transferred to the National Welfare Fund.
• An increase in VAT will help to find 2 of 8 trillion rubles necessary to fulfill Putin's promises. “The decision to increase VAT is the most effective for receiving additional money and the least harmful in terms of increasing the tax burden. At the same time, do not touch the preferential VAT, ” said Andrei Makarov, chairman of the State Duma budget committee.
• The preferential tax rate of 10% will really remain - 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, in 2018-2019, expenses will increase to 600-650 billion.
• The abolition of the preferential rate was discussed, but they decided not to touch it - it was assumed that an targeted social support would be replaced (this is required by Vladimir Putin’s order) in the form of a manual for the poorest. But due to the upcoming pension and tax reforms, they decided to postpone the discussion.

What am I to me?

VAT increase is an automatic increase in prices by 2% for the buyer, and for a business working in a competitor of the market, a proportional drop in marginality. But those who work at a preferential rate of 10%, but could lose the benefits, can sincerely congratulate.

MONEY

Who plays against the ruble

The US Federal Reserve has increased the key rate by 0.25 percentage points. Up to 1.75–2% is the second increase in this year and the seventh since the beginning of the US monetary policy at the end of 2015. For the ruble, as for other currencies of developing markets, this is one of the important risk factors for 2018. But yesterday’s increase was calm - the Ministry of Finance does not allow the ruble much more to the ruble now, actively buying up the currency in the market.

Coworking for $ 40 billion

The world's largest WeWork coworking network can be the second most expensive startup in the United States after Uber. According to the results of the new round of investments, which will be headed by the Japanese SoftBank, the WeWORK rating may double-from $ 20 billion to $ 35-40 billion. WeWork received the previous score after SoftBank invested $ 4.4 billion in August 2017. The head of the venture fund SoftBank Vision Fund Rajiv Misra believes that for several years, WeWork should rise in price to $ 100 billion. Details about how Israeli is a multi -million -dollar business of Israeli, you can read here , and about how this business is arranged - here .

Vnukovo will become private

The third in Moscow Vnukovo Airport will become completely private - its co -owner and chairman of the board of directors Vitaly Vansev will buy a 25% plus one promotion from the state. After that, 38.5% of Vnukovo shares will belong to Vantsev. 61.5% of the airport shares belongs to the family of the State Duma deputy and partner Alisher Usmanov Andrei Skoch. After this transaction, Sheremetyevo will remain the only Moscow airport with state participation, where 66% belongs to TPS Avia, Alexander Ponomarenko, Alexander Skorobotko and Arkady Rotenberg, and 30.43% to the Federal Property Management Agency. Domodedovo belongs to the structures of Dmitry Kamenchik 100%.

PRACTICE

How to prevent special services from breaking smartphones

Apple is going to close the safety hole of smartphones that allows law enforcement agencies to access devices using specialized software. The company tests the new USB Restricted Mode, which completely blocks the data transmission through the Lightning charging port an hour after the last unlock iPhone. WSJ suggests that it is through the Lightning port that two companies get access to data that claim that any iPhone can hack, American GrayShift and Israeli Cellebrite. Both are suppliers of special services around the world, including Russian FSB and the Investigative Committee.

Amazon will pay $ 3.5 million for human communication

We already wrote about how the smart column Amazon Echo without the knowledge of the hostess recorded her private conversation and sent the subscriber from her notebook. It turned out that the voice assistant Alexa built into the column took part of the words from the conversation for the team to record and send it. To avoid such errors in the future, Amazon even came up with an alexa prize contest. At first glance, its conditions are quite simple-you just need to create a chat-boot for an assistant, who can speak with a person for 20 minutes, without making any mistakes. But the stories of the participants in the last year’s competition show that earn the promised Amazon to the winner of the competition $ 3.5 million is not so easy. For example, once trained on the content of the Reddit portal, a chatbot answered the children who asked a question about Santa, something in the spirit: “Do you know what I recently realized? Santa is the most thoughtful lies of all what has ever said. ” More information about what difficulties the developers face when turning Alexa into a real interlocutor, you can read here .

Which reduces our productivity

Have you ever noticed that if you have an hour before some planned event or event, you often spend it in vain, although you could make a lot of useful things in this period? If so, we have weak consolation - you are not alone. Gabriela Tonetto, a marketing professor from the Rutgers business school, found that such behavior is generally characteristic of people. We all like to feel that we are well done when we did some business. But if there is a risk not to have time to finish it, we, most likely, will not even come for it. How to deal with it? Trying to reduce the time intervals between important matters, and difficult tasks are to divide into several small ones.

Peter Mironenko