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Tax Bodies Suspended Licenses of Half of Alcohol Firms
Russia’s Federal Tax Service has suspended licenses of 320 alcohol companies, that is nearly a half of all alcohol firms operating in the country, Vedomosti reported.
The licenses were suspended on failure of alcoholic companies to equip their distilleries with the alcohol counters in line with the country’s laws on state control over the alcohol production and turnover. May 1, 2007 was chosen as the final deadline.
But the penalty hit only small operators. Industry’s majors managed to install counters in time and, therefore, avoided the punishment, representatives of Federal Tax Service specified. Tax officers have no claims to federal-run Rosspirtprom, including Moscow Kristall, where Rosspirtprom owns 51 percent, Veda, Russian Standard, Ulyanovsk Kristall (part of Zavody Gross Consortium), SPI-RVVK.
Some alcohol companies have eliminated the violations already, prompting tax officials to start resuming the licenses. Tax claims, for instance, have been lifted from Itkul Distillery, Arkhangelsk Distillery (Synergy Group), Altai STS, Omsk Osha. It took two days to solve the problem, Synergy Board Chairman Alexander Mechetin said.
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