Association of companies the Internet-trade (AKIT) and the Association of retail companies (ACORT) asked Prime Minister Mikhail mishustina about the deferral of payment of taxes and insurance premiums for non-food retail. A significant drop in revenues has affected retailers in categories such as clothing and electronics that have the online portion was small and the businesses are mostly offline stores, industry officials say.AKITA sent on April 29, the letter addressed to Michael mishustina (a copy is in “Kommersant”), in which he asked the Prime Minister about the inclusion of non-food retail in the list of types of economic activities who are granted deferral of payment of taxes, advance payments for taxes and insurance premiums. The President of AKITA Artem Sokolov confirmed the sending of the message. The representative of the HSE told “Kommersant” that the Association sent a similar request yesterday.According to the letter of AKIT, an industry trade may not use “the most important public support measure for the deferral (installment plan) to pay taxes, advance payments of such taxes, insurance premiums”. In this regard, March and April, revenue in individual categories fell by 70-90%, according to AKIT.Please AKIT relevant primarily for those members of the Association whose business predominantly offline points, and the online channel does not occupy significant share in total revenue, explained Artem Sokolov. According to him, it is, for example, trade appliances, electronics and clothing. Among the most affected companies mister Sokolov calls “Sportmaster”, “the Snow Queen”, “Leroy Merlin”, “220 volts”, in “semi-closed” mode, according to him, the work “M. Video-Eldorado” and DNS.”Inclusion in the list of affected fixed an unjustified discrimination, however, it had to follow the specific support measures. The question is, how the government is to ensure that such an extension of time to provide because it is associated with some risk that the state will not see this money in taxes, because a number of companies just go bankrupt,”— says the expert. In his opinion, the state can take these risks on themselves, as this will help the business to survive until the end of may.Dmitry Restoreregistry the current crisis in the consumer market, the pandemic COVID-19 and the restrictions imposed may be greater than anticipated. The decline in demand in Russia has affected 90% of all categories of products and services, and in the next six months buyers will continue to cut spending. Food, clothing, electronics and entertainment are going to save up to 50% of Russians. Some businesses are set up the most dismal manner, predicting closeitie of the enterprises. Moderately optimistic forecasts of analysts, a return consumption to pre-crisis levels will take up to three years.Read more
