“Left slope” of Oreshkin, “lost 20 years” Deripaska and new taxes: the main thing from the first day of the PMEF-2021 The first, traditionally most substantial day of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, contrary to usual, did without hot economic disputes-and Oleg Deripaska’s performance was the brightest. But before the entrepreneurs, the prospect of new taxes opened, which will pay those who want to withdraw dividends abroad.

The Belarusian state channel ONT showed a long interview with oppositionist Roman Protasevich, in which he spoke about signing a confession, about the “Western sponsors” of the Belarusian protest and the respect he had for Alexander Lukashenko. After a week in the pre-trial detention center of the KGB of Belarus, Protasevich unexpectedly appeared on the state channel ONT in the program “Markov. Nothing personal ”- there he gave a great interview.

The Ministry of Finance has developed options for raising taxes for companies that withdraw profits abroad. One of the options is to increase income tax from 20% to 25-30%, told Forbes. Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Sazanov Sazanov assured Forbes that there will definitely be a tax increase for companies that “abuse” the transfer of profits abroad, but will not affect everyone. “We definitely do not have a goal to raise the income tax rate for everyone.

Bell.Club Live continues the Business Leaders project: a series of video interviews with PMEF-2021 participants at the Trust Nonfuscular Asset Bank. Another guest is the managing director of Yandex Tigran Khudardyan. - We cannot avoid the discussion of the pandemic (this is the central topic of the forum), although I understand that it has already been a little dancing for everyone.

Dmitry Gudkov will be released from the detention center, and the criminal case against him will be dropped, sources told TASS and Interfax. Later, the information that Gudkov was being released was confirmed by the investigator himself to the politician's wife. The capital's head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not go to court to order a measure of restraint for opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov, a source told TASS.

The managing director of Alfa-Bank, Vladimir Verkhoshinsky, offered to pay salaries by phone number so that a person could withdraw money through any bank. According to the banker, this will make it possible to get away from "wage slavery." Verkhoshinsky said that even now nothing prevents banks from paying salaries by phone number.

At the SPIEF session “From Financial Literacy to Financial Stability”, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov called on the state to unequivocally ban unqualified investors from complex financial instruments. His position was supported by the Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina. “The state should limit and put a stop on such decisions that people simply should not take ... there were big risks last year when people began to actively participate in the financial market.

Bell.Club Live continues the Business Leaders project: a series of video interviews with PMEF-2021 participants at the Trust Nonfuscular Asset Bank. Another guest is the president of the Cortroes group of companies Veniamin Golubitsky. - You are a specialist in the comprehensive development of territories. Your most famous project is the Academic District in Yekaterinburg. I understand that there are more than 9 million square meters. m is planned. A third has already been built.

The Central Bank proposed to allow teenagers from the age of 12 to trade on the stock exchange - this was stated by the first deputy chairman of the regulator Sergey Shvetsov in an interview with the Izvestia TV channel. According to Shvetsov, “teenagers are definitely ahead of us in terms of digitalization,” and therefore the age barrier for investors will decrease. In addition, according to the official, the exchange allows not only to earn money, but also to gain knowledge.

The Central Bank is considering the possibility of abandoning the 25% limit of depositary receipts in the total volume of shares, said First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Sergey Shvetsov at the SPIEF session "A New Era of Stock Markets: Risks and Opportunities." As a rule, division into shares and GDRs is used for placements on Russian and foreign stock exchanges.

At SPIEF-2021, not only officials, but also businessmen argued about how to achieve economic growth in Russia, including Oleg Deripaska, who traditionally blamed the Central Bank for all the troubles, and who broke through to the forum, despite tickets for 960 thousand rubles, Anastasia Tatulova. Businessmen took part in the session “NEP 2.0. How to ensure economic growth in every home”, which was moderated by business ombudsman Boris Titov.

The global economy is driven forward by private companies, while in Russia the role of the state is excessive due to external and internal factors, said ex-Minister of Finance, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin at the SPIEF session “Occam’s Razor: what is important for business in the post-COVID time ? ” “The role of the state in Russia has a special history,” Kudrin answered the host's question about what drives the economy more: the state or business.

The Russian government is not considering new changes in personal income tax, while the increased to 15% rate for high incomes will bring this year more than planned - under 100 billion rubles instead of 60 billion, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced this at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum . The money received from the increased personal income tax goes to complex childhood illnesses, Siluanov recalled.

The session “The Customer-Centric State” at SPIEF 2021 began with a search for a definition of customer-centricity, and ended with a quote from Dolphin’s song “Hope”. In general, the participants - Sergey Kiriyenko, German Gref and others - agreed that the culture of providing public services in Russia needs to be changed. At the beginning of the session , the moderator invited each of the speakers to explain in one or two words what customer-centricity means to them.

"Yandex" will create a council to discuss issues of working with partners. One of the first problems that he will deal with should be the work of enriched answers (“sorcerers”), which caused claims by the FAS. Andrey Styskin, director of the search, advertising and cloud services business group at Yandex, spoke about the council at SPIEF. “It is important for us to hear and understand those who build their business using the capabilities of our services.