Putin will discuss with the Ministers de-offshore-isation of the Russian economy

The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin on Wednesday will discuss with members of the Cabinet measures deofshorizatsii of the Russian economy and the problem of monocities.

The meeting will be devoted to the fulfillment of the tasks set in the presidential address to Fedarene in the development of the may decrees 2012.. So, Putin said that the revenues of the organizations that have an account in an offshore jurisdiction belonging to the Russian owner, as the final beneficiary, must be subject to Russian tax rules and tax payments have to go to the Russian budget.

" during the meeting is expected to discuss measures deofshorizatsii of the Russian economy, as well as issues of ensuring stable development of monoprofile settlements. In addition, will be discussed a number of pressing current problems, " informs press service of the Kremlin.

May decrees were the first documents that Putin signed after returning to the post of the head of the country, the basis was laid Putin's election campaign programme. The implementation of the decrees has been declared a priority in the activities of the President and Cabinet of Ministers.


De-offshore-isation of the Russian economy was expected to discuss at the meeting of the President with members of the government on 10 July. However, in the open for correspondents part of the meeting was touched only the Problem of spending Federal funds subsidized regions. Any solutions deofshorizatsii then declared was not.

On the need for a law of deofshorizatsii first of many times stated the head of the Century, the Century of Putin. The preparation of the document On controlled foreign companies engaged in the Ministry of Finance. On the first day of the week newspaper " Kommersant " has said that the Finance Ministry intends to set for deofshorizatsii transition period for the period of 2016-2017 years, and fully implement the provisions of the law concerned with 2019. The postponement satisfied with Russian organizations, some of which were the object of sanctions from the West in connection with the position of Russia on the situation in Ukraine.

according to the newspaper, the Ministry proposes to set the threshold of the profits to offshore companies, which must be paid the taxes for 2015 50 million roubles (1, 5 million dollars), to 2016 year 30 million (850 thousand USD), and then gradually reduce it to 10 million roubles (280 thousand dollars). Share ownership of offshore companies for Russian owners of the Ministry of Finance offers for 2015 set at 50%and then be reduced to 25% for a single person or up to 10%if the combined share of the Russian residents exceed 50%.


Mono - towns, where the overwhelming number of people employed in the only town-forming enterprise. In the conditions of planned economy Monotowns ensured sustainable employment and welfare, but the transition to a free market and fluctuations of demand and supply has violated this resistance has led to unemployment, migration and social complications. The problem of single-industry towns exist in many countries and is solved in different ways, without special support they are due to the outflow of residents often turn into " Ghost towns ", for example in the USA.

About ten Russian single-industry towns have more than 100 thousand inhabitants, among them are connected with the Volga motorcar giants Togliatti (700 thousand) and Naberezhnye Chelny (500 thousand), mining Novokuznetsk (560 thousand), Prokopevsk and Leninsk-Kuznetsk on Kuzbas, Nizhny Tagil metallurgical (360 thousand) and Magnitogorsk (410 thousand) in the Urals and Norilsk in the Far North, as well as the port of Nakhodka in the far East.


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