Russia has offered to temporarily suspend the payment of the resort fee. According to the law developed by the head of the Duma Committee on budget and taxes Andrey Makarov and the Chairman of the Federation Council Nikolay Zhuravlev, subjects where such tax is applicable, may suspend the operation in some or all municipalities. The document is to be considered at the plenary session of the Federation Council on Friday, April 17.
The law stipulates that the regional authorities will be able to suspend the collection of resort fee without waiting for the will of the municipalities. We are talking about the Republic of Crimea, Altai Krai, Krasnodar Krai and Stavropol Krai. It is anticipated that the moratorium will be established by the law of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation on the basis of the real situation.
The authors of the amendments say that the background of the pandemic COVID-19 to ensure full utilization of and profitability of the resort infrastructure for the current season is impossible. Therefore, with high probability region even in the absence of revenues from the resort collection will be forced to bear the costs of its administration.
Tuesday, April 14, the state Duma adopted immediately in the first, second and third readings. “This document is quite obvious applied nature. He removes the regions from unnecessary expenses and excess organizational arrangements at this difficult time”, — said earlier “the parliamentary newspaper” the first Deputy head of the faction “United Russia” Andrei Isayev.
We will remind that experiment on the holiday collection takes place from may 1, 2018 in Krasnodar, Stavropol and Altai territories. And in the Crimea, the imposition of a fee delayed until 1 may 2021.
