The state will take profit from business, the results of panic in the financial market and interviews in Google and Microsoft

Business will have to give more than 500 billion rubles for May decrees - without any taxes, just like that. Details - in the evening newsletter The Bell.

The current tax system does not just allow you to remove 513 billion rubles from metallurgists and chemists, the presidential assistant Andrei Belousov complains. But it is not too late to develop such mechanisms. Photo: kremlin.ru

An increased VAT will work only from January 1, 2019, money will appear from raising the retirement age later - but the May decree of Vladimir Putin requires money now. Who will pay it? Of course, business. To do this, you don’t even need to introduce any new taxes, the presidential assistant Andrei Belousov decided - he offers simply withdraw from the metallurgical and chemical companies “overlines” for more than 500 billion rubles received due to high prices.

• Belousov proposed to recover from metallurgists and chemists to the budget in a letter to Vladimir Putin, whom RBC got acquainted with. This is almost as much as the state will bring the upcoming VAT increase from 18% to 20% (600 billion rubles). Putin set up the resolution “I agree”, writes RBC (his spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, does not confirm this). The purpose of the seizure is to finance the implementation of the May decree of Vladimir Putin, the letter is directly said.
• Belousov calls the articles in the letter a profit for 2017, "formed thanks to the market conjuncture and independently from the actions of the management of companies." It is most likely about the growth of world prices (metals, for example, according to Bloomberg, in 2017 went up by 20.8%), and not about the ruble devaluation for exporters (in 2017 it was strengthened by 6.5%).
• In total, 14 companies are listed in the letter - these are all the largest metallurgical and coal companies, except for the sanctions Rusala, and the chemical “Sibur”, “Fosagro”, “Uralkali” and “Akron”. They are offered to withdraw from 5.49 billion rubles (Evraz) to 114.2 billion rubles (Norilskel is 90% of the company's net profit for 2017). Belousov recalls that in 2016 the government was already seized overprinds with oil workers, and metallurgists and chemists pay less taxes - an average of 7% against 28% in the oil industry.
• The current tax system does not create conditions for additional seizures of supercarcoming, Belousov rightly notes. Therefore, the Ministry of Finance is proposed to develop a mechanism of such withdrawal.

What am I to me?

The idea sounds, to put it mildly, non -resident, and the proposal to develop a mechanism for the removal of business profit, which the government considers excessively, is frightening. Belousov mentions 2016 - but then they supervised the oil workers to cover huge holes in the budget with oil below $ 30, and not for the implementation of election promises on the development of education, health and infrastructure with oil at $ 70. If the proposal is approved, the owners of the shares of metallurgical (almost all of them are public) and chemical companies need to prepare to reduce dividends. For the rest of the business, this will be a signal - the state is going to manage the economy using non -market methods. And about the promise of Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov, not to change taxes for 6 years can be forgotten-why change taxes, if you can “remove super-profits” just like that.

MONEY

Panic subsides, dollar - 66.5

By the middle of the day, the Russian market got used to the news about new American sanctions ( yesterday and today ). The ruble was fixed in the area of ​​the mark of 66.5 rubles ./ $ and 77 rubles/€, and the shares of Russian companies falling yesterday and today (for example, Sberbank and Aeroflot ) or have grown, or almost compensated for a sharp drop. Analysts believe that in the absence of new negative news (where there are already more, in the end), the panic will stop until August 22, and the ruble and blue chips will begin to grow slowly. If everything is so, we can wait for the response Russian measures (judging by the first statements , we have nothing to suggest so far) and get used to life with the dollar of 66-67. Flights, for example, from next week rise in price by 5%.

Benefit for sports

This news would look more appropriate before the elections, but the Russian government has its own logic - Vladimir Putin instructed the government to introduce tax deductions for citizens' expenses to physical education and sports. The proposal was included in the minutes of the meeting on the results of the 2018 World Cup. There are no details about the new benefit in the protocol, but in February the Center for Strategic Development of Alexei Kudrin proposed to enter such a deduction for people who buy subscriptions to the gym and sports sections for children for the entire cost of subscriptions. Now similar tax deduction can be obtained , for example, for expenses for education and medical care.

PRACTICE

How technical gigant is hired to work

After an interview in Microsoft, the company in 23% of cases will inform you of the decision made on the same day or, in 55% of cases, within a week, but 35% of applicants have to wait for an answer from Google up to 2 weeks, another 30% - up to a month. 40% -50% of applicants evaluate the issues of Apple and Facebook as “very complex” or “complex”, while in Amazon the questions were “light” or “very easy” for the third interviewee. This is the data of Comparably, which conducted a survey of 6.5 thousand of the current employees of the five largest American technical giants - Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon - and in addition to the time of response to applicants and the complexity of the interview, for example, in the process of interviewing, you can feel the corporate culture of the companies or what a number of tasks and what a number Each companies conduct an interview before offering work.

How to configure the balance between life and work

We live in an era of technology, when a clear border between work and the rest of life is erased: working messages to the messenger can get you both at home and on vacation. Such a rhythm leads us to constant anxiety because of work and a false sense of our own overload (how to cope with this-we wrotehere ). Professors from the Worton Business School directly say : the separation between life and work no longer exists. According to experts, this is generally good for workaholics (Integrators), for whom work and life are a single whole, and less good for people who prefer to clearly separate these things (Segmentors). They introduce these concepts to explain why it is important for modern companies (especially small ones) to determine what type their employees belong to and how to create comfortable conditions for them - because this is primarily the opportunity to strengthen their positive aspects.

Peter Mironenko