Universal declaration: limit, trust and tax rates

Oragir.News, “Agenda” · 54 minutes

“At first, it was announced that all transactions would have to be declared, then they said that 300 thousand and more would have to be declared. Then it turned out that if you receive money from Russia, let’s say 30 million drams, you can divide it into a hundred parts. There is no limit, you can send it a hundred times and not declare it. If you say one thing today, tomorrow, a day later, you say something completely different, then a few days later something completely different, there is no trust. We introduce something all at once, but no, it didn’t work out, let’s go back. That reduces trust, it creates problems. You can’t increase taxes and expect the economy to grow in parallel with it, the opposite should happen.”

“Experience shows that reducing tax rates leads to an increase in tax collection. Now we have 780 thousand registered workers, before, if I’m not mistaken, there were about 600 thousand. Why did it increase, because we reduced the rates. Many people don’t understand value-added tax, but it is a pass-through tax. Let’s say in Russia there are about ten organizations in the chain that provide some final product, and effectively it turns out that each one pays 2 percent. We don’t have that chain, there are 2-3 organizations in the chain. You can’t conduct social policy, the right policy, if you don’t register everything. We should reduce the rates, but at the same time tighten the administration, but not tighten the administration with the police, that is, with police measures.”