Media: the budget for 2017 may be annual – News Economy

Print The government can prepare the annual budget for 2017, according to “Vedomosti”, with reference to the three federal officials of various departments. Finance Ministry spokesman, however, contends that such a discussion is not, and the agency is working on a three-year draft budget

One of the interlocutors edition explained that the three-year plan to see all the problems:. Reduce the budget even in 2017 with the deficit 3.2%, as proposed by the Ministry of Finance, is almost impossible. In addition, the budget should be accounted for decisions on tax and pension system, but now they do not, another official said. According to another source, “Vedomosti”, the compilation of the three-year budget plan hampered and the forthcoming elections to the State Duma.

In April, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in the State Duma, which should return to a three-year plan, because it gives “more a clear vision. ” In August, he said that the budget for 2016 may be short of 1.5 trillion rubles. income.

The following year, revenues could be even lower than in 2016, said the federal official. Earlier, the government decided to freeze expenditures -. 15.787 trillion rubles, which will lead to their reduction in real terms. In addition, the authorities have decided to reduce unprotected budget items by 5% – this is the order of 250 billion rubles

So far discussed is a three-year draft budget, but recently had the idea to leave a one-year budget for a year, he said. publication of a senior official. According to him, it is necessary iz-za very large uncertainty: it is difficult to plan a budget for three years, because he would have run outside the election cycle, and who knows what decisions on revenue and expenditure will be taken.

However, a spokesman for the finance ministry denied this information, saying that the ministry is working on a three-year draft budget. A spokesman for Prime Minister Natalia Timakova also said that all work on the budget meeting and all documents are prepared in the 2017-2019 biennium. The official financial and economic bloc said that the official of the annual budget preparation it does not go, but the theme has sounded at the meetings.