Russian Pension Fund Chairman Gennady Batanov takes part in a press conference devoted to pension benefits. The conference took place in ITAR-TASS news agency.
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Federal Tax Service Looks into Envelopes
// Tax Service took salaries in 155,000 companies out of the shadow
400,000 preferred to remain where they are
Russia’s Federal Tax Service published preliminary results of its anti-gray salary campaign initiated in 2006. Vladimir Gusev, deputy head of Tax Service, said that 155,000 companies in Russia agreed to raise official salaries to the living minimum level under the Service’s pressure. However, 400,000 refrained from doing so, because present methods of Tax Service to collect more unified social taxes and insurance premium payments do not correspond to current law.
Vladimir Gusev, deputy head of Federal Tax Service, said 544,000 companies were paying salaries lower than the living minimum early in 2006. Thus, tax committees were created in every region. Heads of such organizations and enterprises have been summoned for preventive talks. So, 155,000 companies chose to raise salaries up to the living minimum level.
However, Russian law does not oblige companies to pay salaries of some certain level, unlike US law which guarantees minimum hourly payment. So, Russian Tax Service exceeds its powers in this case.
Pillar of Russia business association gathered for its session recently. Businessmen demonstrated the notifications they had received from tax inspections. These documents threaten to put enterprises which refuse to raise salaries up to the living minimum on a black list of dishonest taxpayers, which will certainly create problems for those enterprises. Such anti-gray methods of the Tax Service will surely bring results soon.
Vadim Visloguzov
All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 27, 2006
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