Growing costs for the implementation of the recommendations of the authorities to combat COVID-19 increasingly concerned about the business. The largest producers of food and goods of daily demand want to obtain permission to deduct from income the expenses for the testing of workers for the coronavirus that large enterprise costs amount to 5 million rubles. per month. And the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs (RSPP) asked the CPS to limit the cost of tests at accredited laboratories due to the rising prices.Questions about the cost of testing employees for COVID-19 Executive Director of the Association “RusBrand” (includes Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, etc.), Alex Popovici sent to the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov and the head of the Federal tax service (FNS) Daniil Egorov. A copy of the letter is “b”. As noted in the circulation, only in Moscow, according to the decree of mayor Sergey Sobyanin, 12 may 31, employers had to conduct tests on COVID-19 not less than 10% of the employees, since June 1, testing is required to spend every 15 days.While amendments to the Tax code of 22 April allow you to deduct the cost of acquisition of medical products, means of protection, disinfection of premises to combat COVID-19 from the amount of income before tax. According to the source “Kommersant” in the company — a large manufacturer of products, one-time testing of 10% of the employees at the plant in Moscow manages approximately 1.7 million rubles. per month costs of large enterprises can be up to 5 million rubles. Similar waste trading networks may be higher three to five times, adds the source “b”. The Association of retail companies (ACORT, includes X5 Retail Group, Magnit, Auchan, “Tape”) a figure of spending is for tests not provided, noting that the total cost of networking on sanitary-hygienic measures — 5 billion roubles in a month.According to Alexei Popovichev, large companies organize testing of employees for COVID-19 using third-party institutions, primarily based on safety considerations. While the current legislation does not explicitly include the cost of hiring third parties for testing COVID-19 to expenses that can reduce taxable income, says Executive Director of the Association “RusBrand”. The partner of lawyer Bureau “Bisenov and partners” Dakhanago Nagoeva notes that the measure will be most useful to companies with high staff numbers, which will depend on the size of the tax savings. The lawyer agree that the cost of testing for coronavirus should be compared to the already adopted amendments to the Tax code, as all these measures are aimed at ensuring the safety of enterprises. The Ministry of economy and on questions of “b” is not answered.A copy of this letter also have “b”. As noted in the statement in St. Petersburg the cost per test from late April to late may, increased in 1.5 times, and the deadline for receipt of results has increased from three to four to seven or eight days. This leads to the necessity of removing workers from the production process and costs for employers with a large staff of tens of millions of rubles a year, wrote Mr. Shokhin. He, in particular, proposes that the cost of testing COVID-19 institutions accredited by Rospotrebnadzor.Director of laboratory technologies “Gemotest” Tamara Silkin explains that the cost of research affect the purchase price of reagents and laboratory plastics, the cost of equipment maintenance and IT systems, wages of employees, logistical costs etc. In the CPS told “Kommersant” that will examine all the facts and will give an assessment after receiving the appeal the Union.Anatoly Kostyriv
