The Russian Finance Ministry does not support a proposal by the Federal Antimonopoly Service to introduce a floating excise on engine fuel depending on global oil prices, Deputy Minister Ilya Trunin said. The official said that fuel excises were a source of replenishment of road funds. “This means that we will need to introduce floating…
The Russian government will most likely sell a 19.5% stake in oil major Rosneft in November, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev reported. “We do not have the time now. According to the schedule, most likely in November”, he said. (Prime/Business World Magazine)
The Russian government plans to save about 700 billion rubles by cutting inefficient spending and redistribute around one trillion rubles in the 2016 budget, including social spending, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting. “We are working on reduction of inefficient budget spending. We plan to save around 700 billion, even more, this…
The Russian government can limit deductions on corporate profit tax for consolidated taxpayer groups from 2017, Deputy Finance Minister Ilya Trunin said. The current consolidated taxpayer group rule allows companies to include an unlimited amount of corporate units running at loss into the taxable base and reduce it. Trunin said that the Finance Ministry offered…
Russia’s cross-border sales of goods and services, including digital goods, content, games and social networks, will grow by 32% in 2016 to $2 billion, payment platform PayPal and research agency Data Insight said in a study. The internal e-commerce market will exceed $20 billion in 2016. “The market of retail Internet exports of goods and…
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has amended the law on 2016 national budget, expanding expenses on defense and security by 7.1 billion UAH without the increase in the deficit of the national budget. A total of 265 lawmakers backed bill No. 5217 at the session of the parliament. The government’s bill was registered in parliament on October…
Washington has de-facto suspended cooperation with Moscow on an agreement on nuclear power cooperation after Crimea was annexed in 2014 and Moscow only formalized the fact on Wednesday, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. On Wednesday, Moscow suspended cooperation with US in scientific research and nuclear power. The Foreign Ministry said that Moscow would still fulfill…