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New links in the anti-crisis chain

05.06.2015

Discussions, to enhance the effect of the adoption of anti-crisis law-in-draft, proposed by Alexander Korshunov and Peter Pasat continued today in the briefing room of the Supreme Council. Its main directions are preventing further deterioration of living standards and reduce government revenues. The authors consider possible by stimulating additional employment, preservation of existing and creation of new industries to achieve this goal. Alexander Korshunov said that the government policy is to ensure to prevent a decline in revenue. At that the consequences of intransigence of the state in tax breaks are not taken into account. Parliamentarians also insist on the necessity of decision-making in the future.

The author's version of the law-in-draft offers new manufacturing plants to release for five years from tax on income and give the government the power to regulate multiplying factor to its base rate. The developers of the law-in-draft consider the organizations using the simplified taxation system appropriate to exempt from delivery and management of statistical reports, as well as making payments for environmental pollution and use of natural resources. In addition, during the period from 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2016 proposed to fix the amount of the minimum wage. Return to the current 2013 standards was created to increase the transparency of the distribution of profits from the use of state property: the amount of profit to be transferred to the consolidated budget of the state-owned, established by the law on the national budget. Accounting Chamber proposed to be empowered to carry out inspections of these organizations as well as enterprises that use state support in the framework of agreements concluded with the Government. Parliamentarians have taken the path of legislative struggle with the crisis find it necessary to recognize the certificates of compliance received in the CIS and the EU to reduce the administrative barriers and tax burden on the real economy. There are proposals related to pricing: we are talking about the introduction of a temporary mechanism for regulating prices for beef, pork, chicken, fresh fish, frozen herring, sugar, salt, black tea, some fruits and vegetables. Parliamentarians linked tax control improving to the provision of the tax authorities the right to conduct unscheduled inspections of trade organizations, which recorded a negative net asset value.

In an effort to fill the maximum the document that was adopted in the first reading with salutary for the economy measures, its developers are encouraged to propose amendments to it. At the moment, the initiative is as a basis on which rational ideas are implemented, coming both from legislators, and representatives of the Pridnestrovian business. There were not received amendments from the government, but a formal opinion on the law-in-draft "On additional measures to stabilize the economy of PMR". But, according to Advisor to the Chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic Affairs Alexander Martynov, 80% of the measures prescribed in the deviation in the recent past, legislators presidential initiative "On some additional government measures aimed at minimizing the negative impact of external economic factors", shift to the form of amendments to the deputy law-in-draft. Entrepreneurs actively participate in the improvement of the document. Their proposals were discussed during the round table on the problems and support small businesses.

All proposals, voiced by representatives of business circles of the republic will be analyzed and, if found effective, decorated in the form of amendments to the law-in-draft "On additional measures to stabilize the economy of PMR". It will  be discussed by members of the Committee for Economic Policy, Budget and Finance by the end of the week.