Turchak explained his proposal to raise taxes on electronics and 60% – RBC

The Governor Andrew Turchak

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The Governor Andrew Turchak said his proposal to raise the import duty on electronics up to 60% will help the development of the domestic industry. Previously, retailers called the rise in electronics duties “murder” online store

The proposal to increase taxes on electronics imports to 60% (currently the maximum value – 14%) is primarily concerned with those products, which can be production Russia, Tass said the head of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak. The fact that the governor sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin earlier told “Kommersant”. Turchak confirmed to the agency the information

«In the first place we have in mind the types of electronic equipment for the production of which Russian companies have the necessary competence” -. Said the governor

He. He stressed that many of these products’ tariffs are 0%, making it uneconomical to their production in our country. ” “The situation we propose to change” – said Turchak.

He added that such a measure does not contradict the norms of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and countries such as Brazil, India and China also allow themselves to establish customs fee up to 60%, being a WTO member.

in his letter, the President referred to by “Kommersant”, Turchak explained that raising taxes will help to realize a number of projects on the territory of special economic “Moglino” zone, particularly the construction of a plant for contract manufacturing of electronics for civil industry “with an investment of about 2.5 billion rubles. and the creation of about 1 thousand. jobs holding GS Group, specializing in the production of set-top boxes and other consumer electronics. ” The representative of GS Group also stated Tass that “it is expedient to revise the sectoral policy priorities of interaction with the WTO, setting the total amount of payments, including customs duties, from 20 to 60% for all types of electronic equipment».

The governor in a letter to President also argued that the increase in fees would ultimately increase the share of domestic products in the market from the current 14 to 50% for several years, will bring the budget more than 600 billion rubles. and will create more than 20 thousand. new high-tech jobs.

Later, a member of the Presidium of the Association of Retail Companies (AKORT) Ilya Lomakin-Rumyantsev said that the sharp increase in duties on the import of electronics Russia will be “the murder of Russian Internet shops. ” He argued that the proposed measure Turchak unbalances the consumer market, but will not help domestic producers.

«All the decision to raise tariffs, these tariff wars always lead to the separation of the markets and limit development. The development of Russian electronics could help only measures to enable talented people to implement their projects, “- explained Lomakin-Rumyantsev.