Belarus-based manufacturers of alcoholic beverages and beer are free to choose when to pay excise taxes to the state budget: after they ship goods to consumers, or after they receive payment for the goods shipped. Belarus’ head of state has adopted an ordinance to sustain the current practice in 2017-2018. Other Belarusian manufacturers are supposed…
Belarus’ gross domestic product (GDP) dropped by 2.7% YoY in January-July 2016 to 52.6 billion Belarusian rubles ($27.1 billion at the central bank’s exchange rate), an official with Belarus’ National Statistics Committee said. Industrial output in January-July fell by 2% YoY to Br45.1 billion ($23.2 billion). Farm output grew by 4.2% to Br6.2 billion ($3.2…
Belarus’ fixed-capital investments and investments in construction dropped by 20.6% YoY in January-July to Br9.2 billion ($4.8 billion), the National Statistics Committee (Belstat) said in a report. As much as 3.1 billion rubles ($1.6 billion) was spent on buying machines, equipment, and vehicles, down by 24.9% YoY. Investments in construction and assembly operations totaled Br5…
Ukrainian budget revenues for January-July amounted to 322 billion UAH, up by 24% YoY. This was announced by the head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Roman Nasirov. “According to the government plan for 2016, we have to collect taxes in the amount of 607 billion UAH to the general budget fund. We have…
Russian consumer prices remained flat from August 9 through August 15, after two weeks of a 0.1% contraction, while inflation since January 1, stood at 3.8%, the Federal State Statistics Service said. In August 2015, prices grew by 0.4% MoM and 9.8% since January 1, 2015. Prices for fruit and vegetables fell by 3.4% on…
Russia’s Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal has rejected Google’s complaint against a lower court’s decision that supported the antimonopoly service in finding the U.S. giant guilty of abusing its dominance on the market of preinstalled application stores. “The (lower) court’s decision will stay unchanged, and the appeal will not be satisfied”, the decision read. The…
Ukraine is expected to lose about $1 billion from trade restrictions Moscow had to impose after Kiev had joined a free trade zone with the European Union, Ukraine’s deputy minister for economic development and trade Natalya Mikolskaya said. She said Ukrainian exports to Russia shrank by 36.2% YoY in the first six months of 2016,…