[000:00:00;00] and uh, tax systems are influenced by, well, so many factors , including populism, probably in one area or another, in certain countries, some traditions that have developed, so, but to your question, uh, well , probably, there are no exotic systems of progressive taxation in principle, because the system itself is generally accepted, generally accepted, the system is progressive taxation, another question is: what rates do taxpayers face when they pay tax, when we talk about 25%, and we argue in including, we saw in story that this is allegedly unfair, and this is a lot, and we had such arguments , in particular regarding htp residents, when people said, or lobbyists of this system said that they don’t visit hospitals anyway, because they go to private centers

, why do they have to pay... more , uh, i must say that uh, progressive tax rates go up to 50%, in the main countries of the european union, they, the maximum withdrawal, is exactly at the level of about 50%, that is 46%, 50%, 42%, so 25% is quite comfortable rate, this is the first thing, and if we talk about exotic taxes, in preparation for the transfer, 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 a dance stomach, 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... but we know that there are also tourist taxes, this is already enough, taxes on yachts, on helicopters on 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, while preparing for the program, did you look into the literature, textbooks, teaching aids on public administration. there you have already noted this thesis, the progressive tax 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 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 a smaller... other things being equal tax burden. please tell me, if we evaluate this measure in belarus, how it can affect the business activity of businesses once, and on economic growth in our country two. as for investing income, as for directing your own income for medical care, education, these incomes are not subject to taxation, virtually zero tax is established for them load, therefore , the newly introduced measures will not be able to, yes, have a negative impact, they definitely will not be able to make any significant changes to the general taxation system, but at the same time,

this is a significant step forward in the future. formation of the tax system, increasing its efficiency, we always say that every tax in the system should be effective, i very much welcome the actions of the tax authorities aimed at closing these gray tax evasion schemes, forming a system transparent, transparent legislation for the number of benefits to reduce the so-called indicator of erosion of the tax system, that is, there should be a minimum number of benefits, they should be aimed at the least socially protected layers or at stimulating economic growth, so

all the insinuations about what the state wants collect more taxes, fleece the poor, unhappy citizens, this is all inappropriate, in fact, this is untenable, the tax system is transforming. and everyone's actions government bodies, they are synchronized, they are coordinated, each solves its own problem. yuri mikhailovich, i can’t help but ask you a question, again, returning to these destructive publications, well, we have already refuted them, but nevertheless, they connect two documents, they see the draft law on the republican budget, they see the draft... law they are trying to build a cause-and-effect relationship about changing the tax code, it is untenable, we have just proved it, but nevertheless, a draft law on

republican budget for the twenty-fourth year, 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 is of a deficit nature, please tell me, for our tv viewers, for our opponents who, surprisingly, also carefully watch our programs, from a financial point of view, is the deficit a problem, or is this a normal financial situation, since, what are the features planned in the budget of the twenty-fourth year, well, finally, even if we implement all the proposed ones, here are the innovations we are discussing in the tax code. will this lead to eliminating the budget deficit or not? uh, good question about dmitry vitorovich’s deficit, it is often asked, 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, mathematical, mathematical meaning, why? is this bad? well look, if we speak to a common man and say that this is bad, then people should not take out loans , because this is also, by and large, a deficit in the family budget, don’t buy cars on credit there and borrow from a neighbor until payday, well, this may not be necessary, let’s say purchasing real estate there , the investment of some such things, it is clear what it means, it requires, it means that such an algorithm is... used all over the world, if we talk about the size, well , in the european union there, if you want to be a member of the european union, no more than 3%, that means , roughly speaking, we have about the order, which means 1,9,2 next year

whether it’s planned, whether it’s bad or good, the question is how this gap is closed, and here and last year we had a deficit, a little earlier than this is due, which means, simply put, first, attracting additional resources, the question is, where is it? simple answer: the construction of nuclear power plants, we attract resources, which means, by and large, we finance certain expenses with debt, the acquisition of more individual ones, which means attracting resources for the implementation of some important country projects, is that bad? yes, it seems like no, if we have to cover this with income, then the question arises, someone will not receive additional funding for the repair of streets and roads. it’s a project for the country, but it will have to be squeezed, of course, for the household, this is probably a way out, for the state it’s unlikely, 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, well , you know, the last 10 years, when it was more or less, it means there weren’t any. kosov, market incomes did not collapse there, prices for oil, for potassium, we have accumulated balances, in principle they exist, they can be used, so the question of what we want to cover with these additional, so to speak, some revenues, the deficit is not the question, especially mainly that 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, but the question is: do we take the tax code into account when preparing the budget? of course we take into account we take into account the main parameters of monetary policy, the forecast, and of course changes to the tax code. tell me, what is happening now with the statements

of eurobond holders in russia, what kind of situation is this, can you comment? of course, dmitry anatovich, several, let’s say such, i would say, like opportunistic statements, of course, they are based. on the desire of specific holders there to receive their income here now without looking at any situation and it shows that we, colleagues from a neighboring country, are not fulfilling our obligations, well, you need to understand that a certain set of sanctions were introduced, it was varied, but in this case, from the point of view of eurobonds, western infrastructure, western banks, western depositories refused to work with belarusian, which means financial institutions

to carry out not only new then 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 our holders, whom we, by the way, we don’t know by name, and until now it was the task of this western infrastructure; if we had made these payments, then our unfriendly counterparties would have received the payments. and our investors from belarus and russia would not have received payments, we would have carried out everything as written in the issue 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 common sense and the partnership relations of our countries, naturally not they allowed us to do this, and we did not do it, which means that this money was kept within

the country. now the question arises: how to give them away? we don’t even know the final holders. and in this case, we, also using the experience of our colleagues from russia, are working out 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 depositary, of which, in general, there were depositaries in the russian federation that worked. to different places, did not send these holders to us, our colleagues, partners from russia, it was proposed to work through the national, that is, settlement depository, that is, their central depository, essentially the russian federation, which is what we are basically doing now, working with them that means all the necessary documents, because this kind of work used to be done. was not carried out in principle, in principle they collect

that, let’s say, that quantity or , so to speak, that pool of holders that we have to pay off with in the near future time we will complete this work, we already understand the volume of holders is somewhere around 150-160 in the equivalent of millions of dollars, who are they, who should we pay, in russia, yes, they are collecting other holders so that we know who these people are with whom we must pay as soon as they do this work. they will complete it there and we will conclude an agreement with them, this work will go ahead, of course, it takes time and perhaps some people are not happy with it, but as our opponents say, of course it is better to show that we have a default and so on and so forth, but here's a few questions that’s not the point, but the question is what would have happened if we had done as expected, no one would have gotten their money. igor nikolaevich, well, i can’t help but ask you a question that... worries most of our motorists, how

will the transport tax rates change? in the context of discussing the progressive approach, are there corresponding changes included in the transport tax rates? for the vast majority of citizens, the transport tax rate will be indexed to, so to speak, the inflation rate, this is a very small amount. while that the previous 2 years after the introduction of this tax, we practically did not increase this rate, not practically, we did not increase it, only from the twenty-fourth year we will index it to the inflation rate, this is a completely insignificant amount, but for again, as in terms of increased income, here we propose to introduce increased taxation, that is, we propose to increase the rates by 10 times

for luxury cars, and luxury cars according to the list that will be determined, this is a small number, there brands of cars, so to speak, and accordingly, one more condition, these cars must be no older than 3 years, according to our accounts, again, if you give figures, we currently have 2 million individuals who pay transport tax, this is an innovation with increased taxation will affect a little more than a thousand, that is, out of two million a little more than a thousand , again this is... not a significant number, but again these issues of social justice, because, that is , do i understand correctly, a certain list will be determined vehicles, brands, yes, the owners of which will have to pay transport tax at a higher rate, that is , relatively speaking, people drive