Moscow, 26 August 2016, 20:20 – REGNUM August 26 Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the idea to introduce the country’s tourist tax – a proposal put forward the Ministry of Finance. According to the President, the money from the resort collection should be directed exclusively to the development of tourism infrastructure, and thereby help to reduce the scale of the financial support from the federal center in the region.
«We believe it is possible to enter the resort fee, which must be suitable for holidaymakers – 50-100 rubles, “- said the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov. “We know that in the Federation Council support this idea,” – he added
Now the resort fee can enter simultaneously in the four most popular tourist regions -. Altai Territory, the Krasnodar region, the Crimea and the Caucasian Mineral Waters (Stavropol Territory).
Meanwhile, the idea is not new. Experience resort fees in Russia has quite a long history – in the Russian Federation law “On the resort complete with individuals” acted from 1991 to 2004.
Children under 16 years of age, people with disabilities and their accompanying person. retirees and some other categories of people exempt from fees. All others pay a fee at the place of temporary residence. At the same marginal rate of payments did not exceed 5% of the minimum wage (SMIC). Cancel the collection is largely due to its inefficiency – income it provided very little
Once again about resort fees talked in the spring of 2011, when Dmitry Medvedev , as president, instructed officials to study the issue. the revival of local tax. Then, Medvedev said that the initiative by that time had been actively engaged in the response to the requests of a number of officials, among whom was the governor of Stavropol Territory
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Then some economists reacted to the initiative with suspicion – indicating that charges by Russian standards provide very little income. In addition, there were concerns that the introduction of the collection in the resort area is actually similar to the system of temporary registration in Moscow, but because of corruption may lead to similar processes and small illegal business. Finally, the collection itself may scare travelers and create negative information field around the theme of domestic tourism.
Whatever it was, but the study proposal has not been brought to an end. According to Medvedev, the work of “stuck in the Ministry of Finance.” In April to deal with the situation was instructed Vice Premier Dmitry Kozak , but in May the issue was closed – a decision was made at the Ministry of Finance meeting that impose a tax is impractical due to difficulties with its administration
Once again, the theme of the spa tax Dmitry Medvedev lifted in September 2014 at the International investment forum – then he mentioned the possibility of granting municipalities the right to impose special charges, including travel and resort
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in May 2015, the government rejected the draft introduction of Russian tourist tax, introduced by senators Eugene Bushmina, Vladimir Petrov and Sergey Riabukhin because he had not received any approval “of the concerned departments»
. among these disinterested departments, in particular, were Rospotrebnadzor, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Justice. The government came to the conclusion that the costs of creating a tourist tax systems will be many times more than the resulting profits and appreciation of the resorts have a negative impact on the development of domestic tourism.
In turn, tour operators warned that people will not easy to explain what they have to pay money on the condition in which the Russian infrastructure of many resorts, while the necessary means for their accomplishment will be collected only for a few years after the introduction of the collection.
Calm on subject, however, did not last long – in the summer of 2015 Association of Tour Operators (ATOR), with reference to the Ministry of Northern Caucasus reported that tax can not return before 2017. The corresponding pilot project in 2016-2020 years was proposed to start in the Stavropol Territory in the resorts of Caucasian Mineral Waters
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Then, the Ministry has proposed to make a flat rate fee of 50 to 100 rubles per day of stay in the territory of a spa town. It was assumed that tourists will pay a fee in a hotel or boarding house during the arrival or departure – the ministry opposed the inclusion of the tax in the price. This was planned to again provide benefits for children, seniors and veterans.
The introduction of the collection in the ministry while also motivated by the need to maintain and improve the infrastructure of the Russian resorts, expansion of tourism services and improve service quality. According to calculations of the Stavropol authorities at that time, the revenues from the collection would be about 700-800 million rubles a year.
However, in April 2016 the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation issued a negative opinion on the ODS draft federal law “On Conducting . experiment on the introduction of fees for use of the resort infrastructure in the Stavropol region »
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According to the IEG conclusion amount of the fee could reach 150 rubles. per person a day. Thus, for example, for a family of 4 people for 2 weeks, at 8,400 rubles. At the same time the agency criticized the project for lack of guidance on the implementation of monitoring and accounting of the funds raised, as well as their distribution in the future.
Note that the resort fee was a noticeable spread in several European countries. Usually, its value depends on the time of stay of tourists in the resort. In the world it is accepted to distinguish two main algorithms monetization resort fee -. Asian and European
In the first case, the tourist pays at a fixed amount per day or a percentage of the cost of services. In the second case the tour operator includes the resort fee in the tour price. In this case, money is distributed between the tour operators, hoteliers and the region.
However, in many popular among the countries of tourists, such as Bulgaria, Turkey, India, this collection is not at all.
From CIS countries traditionally allocate Abkhazia, where there is a tourist fees since 2006. Resort fee be paid as a lump sum payment and the rate is 30 rubles. Funds received from payment of tourist tax, are credited to the income of local budgets in the amount of 100%
Payers of resort gathering are foreign citizens and stateless persons who do not have permanent or temporary residence in the country Thus from paying the spa tax exempt, including children under the age of 14, people with disabilities, as well as persons whose stay is not connected with the rest
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