The Duma is discussing the socialist today. So far, Sitius is not in favor of the government. The ardent opponent of the social union leader Mikhail Shmakov was invited to the meeting, and among the deputies the statement of the Federation Council is widespread, in which senators express a negative attitude to the bill and ask to take into account their point of view.

Government officials are trying to convince deputies to vote for a single social tax, without which it is impossible to carry out an integrated tax reform. As you know, the most Dumans are worried about whether the government will scroll through “social” money and, as a result, delay payments. Moreover, extra-budgetary funds have somehow coped with the collection and distribution of these funds.

Since May 1, the Federal Energy Commission increased the prices of electricity released from the wholesale market for 33%. The main reasons are the growth of gas, coal and fuel oil tariffs, as well as the need to invest in replacing the release capacities. However, the increase in costs can be compensated by the replacement of the expensive energy of the TPP cheaper, produced at hydroelectric power plants and nuclear power plants.

At the Friday meeting of the State Duma, the deputies had a strange misunderstanding with the government. In the second reading, the chapter "Unified Social Tax" from the second part of the Tax Code voted, and in principle, complications were not expected. Perhaps the deputies were influenced by the magnetic activity of the Sun. What influenced the government, read below.

The foreign policy activity of the new Russian leadership was successful in the sense that the NATO session at the level of ministers of the defense was devoted almost exclusively to Russia and Putin’s initiative to build a European -Russian system with the participation of NATO and America. The plot was continued during the visit of the Minister of Defense of Sergeyev to Brussels at a meeting of the Russia -NATO Council - the first since the time of the Kosovo operation.

The First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Tatyana Paramonova believes that the basic principles of independence of central banks existing in the world should be applied in Russia. As Paramonova said, speaking at a press conference in St. Petersburg, these principles include the budget independence of the Central Bank, the principle of personal independence of its leadership, as well as the bank accountability, but not control of it from the state.

Today's scandalous voting on social tax is formed primarily by the provision of the Pension Fund and his head Mikhail Zurabov. True, the government expects to neutralize deputy initiatives when the Duma will adopt a law on the entry into force of the Tax Code. Deputy Prime Minister Matvienko told the press that when the line reaches the adoption of this law, the government will try so that the deputies leave alone the Pension Fund until 2003.

Alexy II thanked Putin for not inviting his pope to Russia, Kasyanov and Soros discussed the development of the Internet in the Russian regions, Kiriyenko meets with the Volga Chekists, Gryzlov believes that by introducing a presidential government in Chechnya, Putin finally delegitimized Maskhadov, newspapers write about governors, black Piara and oil - oil - oil. The first monitor.

During the break, the Duma and the government came to an agreement on a single social tax. As a result, the Duma adopted in the second reading the chapter of the second part of the Tax Code on a single social tax. For this decision, 256 deputies voted, against - 137, abstained - 4. In response to the fact that the Duma adopted the law in its version, the government put forward several requirements.

The Ministry of Justice at a special meeting will discuss the problems of compulsory tax collection on taxes and fees, Andrei Churilov, Deputy Head of the Bailiff Department of Bailiffs, told the AK & M agency. The meeting is planned to be opened on June 28, and representatives of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties, the Federal Security Service, the GTK, the Federal Long Center, the Pension Fund and the Bailiff Service of the Ministry of Justice will take part in it.

After violent discussions, the deputies nevertheless voted for the regressive scale of a single social tax, but in the version of the Budget Committee. This means that the minimum tax rate will be 2% from a salary of over 600 thousand rubles per year. “For” 234 deputies voted, “against” - 77, abstained - 4.

According to the Prime-Tass agency, the former first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov said at a meeting of the International Banking Congress that Russia should build a financial system in the next 5 years and enter the world financial mechanism. Currently, traditional banking in Russia is not profitable and does not interest investors as an industry in which you can invest. Now in Russia there are two new coexisting trends.

Vladimir Putin called Bill Clinton today to discuss the first steps with him to implement the agreements reached during the recent summit. Recall, on June 4, the presidents accepted a joint statement on the principles of strategic stability, which emphasized the consent "with the need to maintain stability in the strategic nuclear region", and also confirmed the commitment to the contract for "as the cornerstone of strategic stability."

The Tyumen oil company, it seems, decided to explain that to quarrel with the state is an unreasonable thing: the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy opened a case against TNCs and its subsidiary TNK -Nizhnevartovsk. As stated in the definition of MAP, companies need to explain the reasons for their refusal to conclude a contract for the provision of services of the Ugraneft Corporation.

The Association of Economic Interaction of the Republics and Regions of the Great Urals is anxious - Putin decided to dismember the Great Urals; Sberbank quarreled with the administration of the Leningrad region; The prosecutor’s office of Chechnya continues the investigation of the case of the Sverdlovsk riot police, and the case of the former head of the Bryansk tax police, General Parfyonov, on the contrary, was scattered; The Arkhangelsk region banned the import of ozone -disclosure.