From January 1, 2016 year in Russia may be canceled transport tax, the initiative supports profile Committee of the State Duma on transport. According to the legislators, the collection of this tax is now so low that the easier it will be to fully abolish it and replace the increased excise tax on gasoline. However, the initiative has not left the stage.
As has told to journalists on a press-conferences the Chairman of the Duma Committee Yevgeny Moskvichev, currently 45 million payers of the transport tax dodges almost half. It (the tax – approx. edition) very hard to collect it, almost 50% of subjects of the Russian Federation every year it is not collected, the official explained, adding that he proposes to redistribute the collected amount in the form of excise tax on petroleum products.
Moskvichev explained that in 2014, the excise tax on fuel increased by 1 ruble per liter, which led to additional flow of 74 billion rubles to the regional road funds. These 74 billion of the money will go according to the law on the maintenance of regional and municipal roads, — added the head of the Committee and promised that within 3-4 years, all regional and municipal roads will be brought up to standard.
Recall now that the vehicle tax is levied on each owner depending on the amount of horsepower in the engine and regional rates. Attempts to revise this practice taken more than once: for example, last year, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was invited to go on an environmental assessment of a tax, in which new economic machine turn out to be cheaper than the old dirty exhaust and high oil and fuel consumption. However, implementation of this initiative are not yet known. Well, readers, you have the floor: except option to cancel, petrol free road built on oil money, how would you prefer to pay for horses, aquaclass or litre of fuel?