Experts supported the disclosure of tax information on product pricing
Experts support the disclosure of trade and supplier information about food basket pricing. The Federal Tax Service may provide such data to the authorities. As Izvestia found out on October 23, we are talking about the amounts of income, expenses and profits of business entities, which today represent a tax secret.
"Today, in conditions of high inflation, these measures may be fully justified, but so that it does not affect business," Georgy Ostapkovich, research director of the HSE Center for Economic Research and Economic Analysis, told Izvestia.
The bill allowing authorities to access this information was prepared by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Izvestia found out. The document defines the Federal Tax Service as the responsible body for providing the specified information. In coordination with the Ministry of Economic Development, the service will have to establish the procedure for providing this information.
According to Oleg Pavlov, head of the Public Consumer Initiative, this is a very useful bill, as it aims to control the prices of socially important goods that are included in the consumer basket. According to him, these products are as sensitive as possible and any manipulation of their price parameters has an adverse effect and can lead to negative economic consequences.
A day earlier, it became known that the industrial unions of the agroindustrial complex, food industry and retail trade wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin expressing concern about plans to introduce a state duty for entering information on the turnover of goods into the labeling system. In their opinion, the annual cost of the food industry to pay for labeling codes alone is about 52 billion rubles.
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