tv [untitled] BELARUSTV October 18, 2023 10:40pm-11:01pm MSK
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[000:00:00;00] due to the increased income tax rate of 25% 25%, and as for tax administration, today in the information systems of the tax service, such a volume of information and data is processed and analyzed that this allows us today to exercise not only effective control over the payment of taxes, but we we are already moving to the next level, today the tax service is ready for payers, everyone, individuals and organizations, individual entrepreneurs, to fill out tax returns and pay taxes, then there is such a so-called filing system, when the tax service itself partially fills out the payer’s declarations based on the data, the information that we collect, accordingly, today this has proven to be very effective in terms of working with
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individuals, in terms of... submission of a declaration of total annual income, over the past year we have already 95% of individuals who were required to submit declarations of total annual income, used this service in their personal account, that is, we do it for them practically filled out the declaration, then they confirmed, added something, confirmed something, changed something, signed and sent it, then the same services are currently being developed for organizations in terms of those that use a simplified taxation system, in terms of land tax, in part of the transport tax, that is, today we are ready to calculate taxes for the payer, help him fill out declarations, all he has to do is pay them all on time, that is, our tax administration system as a whole is ready and not only for such steps, but to the subsequent ones, it’s nice
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to hear, but we were wondering how yes. belarusians will accept a possible increase in taxes for a very narrow category of taxpayers receiving excess income, and we conducted a survey on the streets of our cities. vox is the popular voice of the people on the main television channel of the country. please. people who earn more , it’s enough to park on the sidewalk every day and pay fines for it, the fines should be commensurate, these are taxes, they go to healthcare, to education, which us for free, so well, that’s good, i’m from london, we have a progressive tax, and it depends on how much you get, how much more you pay, if the average salary here is 2,000 rubles, then from what, from what small
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taxes will it go to healthcare or so on, it turns out that one person receives... there 2,000 rubles he gives the same part, and when the other has more opportunities, he can contribute more, so yes, i think everything is fair in russia, accordingly, there is also the difference is who gets, for example, 2.000 belarusians, who receive 5,000 belarusian, and who receives 200,000 belarusian, it turns out that the one who receives more can help the state more, because in fact we use all social services equally, in any state this system, if it increases taxes, accordingly, there are probably some specific reasons for this, which again have their confirmation, due to these days we support our state, and if someone has more income, they accordingly, as again in my opinion, they should probably pay more, i want to note that if a person can, he managed to earn this money with his own head, then maybe justice will somehow be violated here, because he tried, worked, is
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an entrepreneur. who live by their work and earn this big money, so i think that there should be an individual approach here, everyone is one size fits all, there is no talk about social justice, but we live in a social state, they provide a lot of jobs, there are enough various projects in which they participate, i know many such cases, i have many such acquaintances, that’s why i would probably still focus on the fact that it was like it was with all of us... no matter how many people earns money, we are from the trans-baikal region from russia, we recently talked about this topic, more money, more responsibly we should still help, there was some kind of budget injection for the necessary needs , also medicine, also housing and communal services, by the way, we have a very beautiful clean city, this just great, for really rich people, raise it to
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25%, according to their wallet. it won’t have an impact, it seems to me, but for the state it’s a plus, to invest in healthcare, sports , culture, tourism, so we fully support it, i have an ip myself, but i think this is wrong, a person earns money, well, he creates such opportunities, to earn money, and those who earn 2,000, well, they seem to be capable of such things, well, this is not an argument for, that is, you start earning more, that is, you need to raise, well, the whole of europe lives like this, the whole world lives like that and lives whoever earns more must bring more, there is also the question of transparency of the tax system, where will these tax payments go next, well, that is, this is also quite important, but let’s say if we withdraw certain tax funds to support some certain kind of de. for medicine, for teachers, just for, is our economy ready, are private traders ready, well
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, of course, our story does not pretend to be a representative sociological survey, we saw different opinions, but in general this is the impression, and we talked with our reporters, journalists who conducted these surveys, they say, of course, most people, when they figure out what we are talking about, they support this approach, the progressive system, so that people who receive, well, super incomes, it’s probably not any other way you name it, they paid more. valery ivanovich, tell me, you, as a scientist, i think, i’m sure, had to study the taxation systems of various countries, including progressive ones, tell me, here are the most interesting, perhaps casuistic examples of progressive system, dmitry avitorić should say first of all that, as an example , and in the scientific community, the discussions are approximately the same as our citizens on the street, that is, how much should they pay, where is the boundary of rational
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rational tax burden, do we fit in, would we fit within these boundaries, but i must say that there is no single opinion, the tax system is influenced by so many factors, including populism, probably in one area or another, in one country or another, some traditions that have developed, so , but to your question, well probably, there are no exotic systems of progressive taxation in principle, because the system itself is generally accepted , generally accepted, a system of progressive taxation, another question is what... rates taxpayers face when they pay tax, when we talk about 25% and argue in including we saw in the story that this is supposedly unfair, and this is a lot, and we had such reasoning, in
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particular regarding residents, when people said, or the lobbyists of this system said that they don’t visit hospitals anyway, because they go to private centers, why should they pay more? i must say that progressive tax rates reach up to 50%, in the main countries of the european union, they, the maximum exemption, is precisely at the level of about 50%, that is, 46%, 50%, 42%, so 25% is enough a comfortable rate, this is the first thing, and if we talk about exotic ones, in preparation for the broadcast, we once again reviewed the information about what is out there in the world, there is a lot of it, there is, for example, in egypt a tax on belly dancing, that is, in order to perform belly dancing,
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you need to pay a tax, and this tax, for this country, is one of the most important , that is, it is one of the five largest, in terms of the level of withdrawals, in some countries there are taxes on entertainment events, that is... they are still charged additionally, but we know that there are also tourist taxes, this is already enough, taxes on yachts, on helicopters, yachts, on helicopters, on parking spaces, there are many examples, there are many examples, maxim leonidovich, well, returning to those serious theses that you voiced in the previous answer , getting ready for the transfer, have you looked into the literature , textbooks, teaching aids on public administration, you have already... already noted this thesis, the progressive taxation system is noted as a measure to reduce the tax burden on the poor in the context of the growing state need for taxes, because
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it is transferred to people who earn more pay more taxes, and those people who earn less, no additional measures are taken for them, so it turns out that these people bear less tax, all other things being equal services, education, these incomes are not your own income for medical purposes are subject to taxation, for them there is virtually a zero tax burden,
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so have some significant impact. on the overall taxation system, the newly introduced measures will not be able, uh, to have a negative impact, they definitely won’t be able to, but at the same time, with everything, this is a significant step forward in further transforming the tax system, increasing its efficiency, we always say that every tax in the system should be effective, i very much welcome the actions tax authorities, aimed at... closing down these gray tax evasion schemes, forming a system of transparent legislation for all taxpayers, again, reducing the number of benefits , reducing the so-called indicator of erosion of the tax system, yeah, then there is.
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there should be a minimum amount per year, they should be aimed at the least socially protected layers or at stimulating economic growth, so all the insinuations about what the state wants to collect more taxes, to fleece the poor unfortunate citizens, all this does not correspond to reality, it is untenable , the tax system is being transformed, transformed into... i can’t help but ask you a question, again, returning to these destructive publications, well, we have already refuted them, but however, they connect two documents, they see the draft law on the republican budget, they see the draft law on tax changes. code and are trying to build a cause-and-effect
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relationship, it is untenable, we just proved, but nevertheless, a draft law on the republican budget for 24 was submitted for discussion in parliament, we carefully studied it, and not only because we are also managers there in some part, but from a journalistic point of view we found out that as in previous years, the budget was of a deficit nature, please tell me, for ours, from a financial point of view, is the deficit a problem or is it a normal financial situation, what features are planned in the budget for 24
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years, but finally, even if everything is implemented the proposed innovation in the tax code that we are discussing, dmitriyvich, it is often heard, used in different ways, a deficit is, well, let’s say, it’s just an excess of income over expenses, it’s some kind of, let’s say, if we say so for ordinary citizens, simple, roughly speaking, the mathematical, mathematical meaning of why it is planned to spend more. is this bad? well, look, if we speak to the common man and say that this is bad, then people should not take loans, because this is also, by and large, a deficit family budget, don’t buy cars on credit there, debt from a neighbor until payday, well, this may not be necessary, let’s say purchasing real estate there, investing some such things, it’s clear what it means, it requires, then such an algorithm, it used all over the world. if we talk about the size, well, in the european union there, if
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you want to be a member of the european union, no more than 3%, which means , roughly speaking, we have about the order, which means 1,9,2 next year is planned, is it good or bad, the question is and how does this gap close, yes and here and last year we had a deficit , a little earlier, what is this connected with , so, to put it simply, first, attracting additional resources, the question is, where is the simplest answer, important country projects, is this bad? but it seems no, if we have to cover this with income, then the question arises, someone will not receive additional funding for the repair of streets, roads, well, in the end
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, for raising wages, because they will be forced to wait until they build a large scale one, of course an important project for the country, but we will have to squeeze, of course, for the household, probably, there is hardly a way out for the state, so the question is, how will we cover this, attracting, by and large , the availability of our leftovers, the question arises, where do we get so many leftovers, you know, for the last 10 years, when it was more or less, it means there were no distortions, market incomes did not collapse there, prices for oil, for potassium, we had leftovers, in principle they exist, they can be used, so the question is what we want to cover with these additional ones some revenues are in deficit, this is not the case, especially mainly because they will often go to local budgets, and our local budgets have almost always been deficit-free or with a minimal deficit, so i don’t see any problems here, otherwise the question is, do we take the tax code into account when preparing our budget? of course,
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we take into account, we take into account the main parameters of monetary policy, forecasts, and of course changes in the tax code, tell me what is happening. now with statements from eurobond holders in russia, what kind of situation is this, can you comment? of course, dmitriyvich, there are several, let’s say, such, i would say, like opportunistic statements, of course , they are based on the desire of specific holders there, that is, to receive their incomes here now, without looking at any situation, and well, it shows that this means we borrow from the market. we work on financial instruments, so why continue this if our colleagues from the neighboring country do not fulfill their obligations, well, we must understand that there were a certain set of sanctions was introduced, and it was varied, but in this case, from the point of view of eurobonds, western
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infrastructure, western banks, western depositories refused to work with belarusian, and in general russian, which means financial institutions not only carry out some new relationships, but payments under old obligations, if we continue as before, then essentially the amount of funds that we had to pay in february to ours, that is, to the holders, whom, by the way, we don’t know by name, and until until now it was the task of this western infrastructure, if we had made these payments, then our unfriendly counterparties would have received payments, our investors... from belarus and russia would not have received payments, we would have carried out everything as written in the issuance documents , but this means that several hundred million dollars more would have been added to the blocked assets of our russian colleagues. was it right to do this? legally, according to the documents, yes, but
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common sense and the partnerships between our countries naturally did not allow us to do this to do, and we didn’t do it, and that means we saved this money... within the country, now the question arises, how to give it away, we don’t even know the final holders, in this case we, also using the experience of our colleagues from russia, we are working on the appropriate options. one procedure was adopted by the government of the national bank, it was recently changed at the proposals of our partners, so that it was possible to work through an authorized depository, of which, in general, in the russian federation there are depositaries who worked with ours, let's say. eurobonds, probably more than a dozen, but in order for them all , so to speak, to run to different places, not to send these holders to us, our colleagues, partners from russia, it was proposed to work through a national, that is, settlement depository, that is, the central depositary, essentially of the russian
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federation, which is what we are basically doing now, working through all the necessary documents with them, because before this kind of work was not done in principle, yes. basically they collect that, let's say, that quantity or so to speak, that pool of holders that we , with whom we must pay off, we will complete this work in the near future, we already understand the volume of holders is somewhere around 150-160 e in the equivalent of millions of dollars , who is it, who should we pay, in russia, yes, they gather other holders so that we know who these people are with whom we must pay, as soon as they complete this work there and we. we enter into an agreement with them, this work will go well, of course, it takes time and perhaps someone is not happy with it, but that’s what our opponents say, of course, it’s better to show that we are in default. and so on and so forth, but here the question is somewhat not that, but the question is what would have happened if we had done it as expected, yes,
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