In Russia, vodka has risen in price on Monday. Its minimum retail price of a pint has now reached 190 rubles. This five rubles more than it was. Who needs it and what price increase?
What else to say this weekend due to the holiday day ?! Of course vodka! From today, the minimum retail price for vodka rose to five rubles in Russia – up to 190 rubles per half-liter bottle. It says in the “Replica” economic commentator Alexei Bobrowski.
Cognac and brandy increase is not affected. It clarifies the appropriate order the Ministry of Finance – Ministry, which for some time is subject to the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation
Well, that changes the increase in the minimum prices for vodka by 5 rubles.? In essence it is a little change – in retail vodka find cheaper 200 rubles is almost impossible – logistics, retailers and so on. But considering how to develop the story of the excise duties and from this the lowest price in our modern history, to understand this is still necessary! I am, as they say, a person is not drinking, but a matter of principle!
In the alcohol industry is going shaped mess. I’m not going to dwell as Rosalkogolregulirvanie tossed from one department to another. First, when there was a service, it was assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture, and then thrown to the Ministry of Finance, then to the Federal Tax Service, and then to the service at the rates, again washed up on the Ministry of Finance. Just some kind of battle for vodka. Ministry of Finance – seems logical – since the time of the Russian Empire as it was. It is true then, as in the days of the Soviet Union was a state monopoly on the matter
Here, the same minimum price for vodka – has emerged as a benchmark in 2009. It is necessary to say it was more effective to combat the production of counterfeit alcohol. In 2014, the minimum retail price has been raised first to 199 rubles. for a pint and then – up to 220 rubles. In February 2015 the minimum price of vodka, after the speech of Russian President in the State Council, was again reduced to 185 rubles. Putin then accurately diagnosed the problem – the high price of alcohol lead to increased consumption surrogates. As the hero of the famous film: it is not a fact, it’s more than the fact it was so in fact.
Now, here again, if only for five rubles, but the raise. The explanation is simple: decline caused discontent of large companies in the industry which can not sell vodka at the lowest price, since it is not profitable. No more explanations. I would like to say, is not profitable – not sell. Inability to work with trading networks and establish logistics – this is not a problem of the state
Next.. Excise. What it is really possible to agree with the producers, not even agree – to discuss: the excise tax for vodka has not changed since 2014 – 500 rubles per liter of absolute alcohol. They – manufacturers are offering lower excise rates, as this will help to oust from the market illegal products. According to their calculations, the rate for the market and the state, and for manufacturers and for the population – about 300 rubles per liter of alcohol.
Effect of changes in the excise tax on the market – simply enormous. In 2000, the excise tax increased by 20 percent – the legal market for the year immediately fell by 40%. Smart people from the Higher School of Economics and the Ministry of Health then counted and brought the correlation between mortality in general and alcohol production. Cool! The details will not dig, but there are questions. Chief among them, increased whether the death rate from poisoning, drug abuse and so on?
I remember a story told Primakov that in the years of perestroika had the courage at one of the party conferences alone oppose the anti-alcohol campaign, which was carried out while purely administrative measures. This decrease in revenues from alcohol and not fall in oil prices then fatally affected the economy of the USSR. But the main thing in unprecedented earlier scales began to develop with the Union drug addiction, intoxicative inhalant, disappeared from the shelves of sugar – began to drive the moonshine.
In the best of times gosaktsizy alcohol gave the budget of the USSR about 20% of revenue, more than 30% in the Russian Empire. But consumption is essentially never changed – has always been a plus or minus 10%. That’s me to the fact that the industry is of strategic importance for the economy, national security, public health. Any action should be clearly weighed and better when the state has complete control over such strategic sectors. And that is a gas monopoly, railway monopoly and their strategic importance, we understand, and in this sector the number of chaotic actions and decisions is approaching a critical point. Again, as long as the president does not intervene.
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