Tax burden will not grow

On the eve of the plenary session of the Supreme Council, members of “The Obnovlenie” gathered to discuss the agenda. Members of the faction together with representatives of the government discussed the provisions of the Budget and Tax Policy Concept. The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Ministers Sergey Obolonik and Stanislav Kasap, as well as Deputy Minister of Economic Development Maria Glushkova.

Earlier the draft Concept of fiscal and tax policy was adopted by the Supreme Council in the second reading in the framework of the spring session in July. Responding to the request of the government, the parliamentarians left this document in the second reading mode for its further study in the mode of joint working groups. At the last meeting of the faction, together with representatives of the government, members of the faction discussed such an important chapter of the concept as “Tax Policy”.

By offering this level of tax burden, the government tried to strike a balance between the development of the economy, first of all, its real sector, which is the main donor of the budget, and the filling of the treasury for the state to fulfill its social obligations.

According to the vice-premier, the stability of the tax system, the invariance of the tariff policy pursued by the state will allow business entities to make long-term plans for the development of production, expansion and renewal of production capacity and production volumes. Sergey Obolonik stated that as the gross domestic product (GDP) increases, the tax burden will decrease - these are the objective laws of the economy.

In the same section of the Concept of budget and tax policy, priority sectors of the economy of the republic are identified. They are correlated with investment laws adopted in the spring of this year, as well as the statutory mechanism of state subsidies for the interest rate on loans to enterprises for modernizing production facilities. Of course, the AIC is among the priority sectors. The government has already sent the state target program for the development of this sector for the next six years to the Supreme Council for consideration.

The draft agenda of the parliamentary faction also included a law-in-draft proposing to liberalize the procedure for crossing the state border by debtors. Usually they are meant as persons who evade payment of alimony, as well as those who owe utility payments and administrative fines. The authors of the legislative initiative Galina Antyufeeva and Grigory Dyachenko consider that this person should, at the legislative level, be given the opportunity to travel outside Pridnestrovie to work to pay off the debt.

Different opinions appeared during the discussion of this issue. In particular, the deputy Ilya Vasilyev proposed to condition the departure of the debtor by the consent of the person in whose favor the debt was formed. We agreed that the amendment to the law-in-draft will be prepared for the second reading.