Russian Ministry of Labor has proposed tougher penalties for employers “gray” wages of employees – Interfax

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Moscow. April 24th. INTERFAX.RU – New penalties threaten businesses for providing incomplete or inaccurate reports on insurance premiums for workers, wrote in a Friday newspaper “ News “.

“Their size will be 5% of total premiums payable for the last three months – but not more than 30% of the amount of contributions per reporting month and not less than 1 thousand. rubles,” – the newspaper said.

“The News” note that it follows from the bill prepared by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (the text of the document is a “News”). Now the same penalties are provided for the failure of the timing of delivery of reports to the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) and the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) on insurance premiums.

The goal of the Ministry of Labour – strengthening the fight against informal wages, it follows from the explanatory note to the bill (with the “gray” official salary understated, with “black” no employee is issued), explain the “News”.

The amendments to the plan to make 27-FZ “On the individual (personalized) registered in the system of compulsory pension insurance “.

According to the RPF, 20 million Russians (15% of the population) in general may be left without pensions – for their employers do not pay contributions, the newspaper said.