in 2016, when buying jewelry price over 100 thousand rubles, the buyer needs right in the store to indicate in the application the passport data, INN, the actual place of residence and so on. In terms of isolation, all purchases over 100 thousand rubles were “frozen” – the courier may not identify the buyer.
the Finance Ministry’s Proposal to raise the threshold of identification of up to 600 thousand rubles can greatly improve the sale of jewelry. “When you calculate the credit card payments are already controlled by credit institutions, which have the necessary information to identify card holders”, – the Ministry noted.
Participants of the market believe that identification would be possible at all to cancel. “Nowhere in the world there is no practice to identify the customer who pays by card, as it is already verified by the Bank, – says Edward Utkin, General Director of the Guild of jewellers of Russia. – In Europe, check the identity of only if you pay in cash over three thousand euros.”
In Russia, the identification required by the law on counteraction to laundering of proceeds, and until the complete abolition of the identification of the question, explain in the Ministry of Finance. But the requirement to give detailed information often leads to rejection of the purchase. A significant part of jewelry sales in the segment of “luxury” goes in the shadow format, I’m sure Utkin. Lose income and fair jewelers, and the state.
However, the majority of sold in Russia of jewellery worth up to 600 thousand rubles, therefore, proposed by the Ministry of Finance will be a significant relief for the industry, according to Dmitry Kuntsev, General Director of “Smolensk diamonds”.
