Sunday, June 5, 2011

Russian President instructed the government to consider all possible ways to reduce rates on insurance premiums for SMEs and entrepreneurs

During a government meeting in Magnitogorsk, the Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said that the rate of premiums in the amount of 34% for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as for individual undertaken daunting. In this regard, the president instructed the government to consider ways to reduce insurance rates even before the first of June 2011. As early as the first of the 2012 premium rates should be reduced. Dmitry Medvedev: "I agree with the fact that the burden of the costs required in connection with the increase of pensions and the financing of development programs, health care, today distributed is not perfect. But the solution to this problem through higher premiums could lead to irreversible consequences. For entrepreneurs such taxes are very high. And when you consider the fact that over the past years we did that contributed to the development of small and individual businesses, such action by the state is absolutely not logical ". In addition, the President proposed several solutions to this problem. Dmitry Medvedev proposed to reduce federal spending on government purchases, and change the scale of premiums. The best option bid amount on insurance premiums head of state called former figures. The president agreed that lower taxes to previous levels would not be so easy. Already in the early summer, the Russian government must prepare a report on work in this direction. We remind that in 2010 the rate of insurance premiums was 26%. 20% of them directed to the Pension Fund, 1.1% - the fund of obligatory medical insurance, 2% - the territorial MHI funds and another 2.9% - the Social Insurance Fund. Since early 2011, the rate on insurance premiums reached a level of 34%: FIU - 26%, MHIF - 2,1%, 3% for regional funds MLA, in the FSS - 2,9%. It should be noted that 26% of the premium had a negative impact on the development of small and private business, where she was to develop dynamically the shadow economy.

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