Loss-making Crimea asks Moscow for even more money
Of every 5 rubles that flow into the Crimean budget, only 1 ruble is earned by the republic itself. And then: 50 kopecks are income tax deductions from state employees whose salaries are transferred by the federal center. However, this does not prevent the Crimean authorities from demanding additional allocations as long as the Crimeanash hashtag brings dividends.
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Next year, Crimea expects to receive half as much from the federal center, increasing the budget from 98 billion rubles to 143 billion rubles. No consensus was found with the Russian Ministry of Finance on an additional 45 billion rubles, and therefore the deadline for submitting the budget to the parliament of the republic has been shifted from November 15 to December 10.
“We absolutely met the deadline for submitting the parameters of the republic’s budget,” Vitaly Nakhlupin, head of the budget committee of the Crimean parliament, assured journalists. “There is no answer from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation about the approved budget parameters, either in the direction of reduction or coordination.”
According to Nakhlupin, the Ministry of Finance is not ready to increase the budget of Crimea by 45 billion rubles, which includes capital expenditures and an increase in wages. The head of the committee did not specify exactly what capital costs are included in this amount, but they are clear from the bill on the peculiarities of forming the budgets of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol for 2016, submitted to the State Duma by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. We are talking about creating a road fund for a constituent entity of the federation, into which all funds should flow for the repair, maintenance and construction of roads.
Back in June, the Crimean parliament established the creation of a road fund, the sources of which will be, among other things, excise taxes on automobile, straight-run gasoline and diesel fuel, transport tax, and revenues to the Crimean budget from the federal budget. The fact that the condition of 80% of the peninsula's roads does not meet Russian standards is not a discovery. As part of the Federal Target Program, more than 111 billion rubles are planned for the development of the road complex, of which 42 billion rubles are intended for the construction of the Tavrida federal highway from the port of Crimea to Sevastopol. This year, with grief, the Crimean authorities are repairing the Kerch-Feodosia-Simferopol highway, but they clearly do not have time to complete it by the stated deadline of November 15. What can we say about the repair of the road network inside settlements, which resulted in “bricks” in unfinished sections.
“There are no problems with financing, there are some problems with development. These are quite large amounts, and road enterprises are not yet quite ready to absorb such large volumes of funds,” admitted the Minister of Transport of the Republic Andrei Bezsalov.
However, this does not prevent the minister from declaring that Crimea needs about 30 billion rubles annually in order to bring all roads to the standards of the Russian Federation in 15 years. Next year, the Ministry of Transport expects to receive 25 billion rubles, of which almost 4 billion rubles will be spent on repairs of the Simferopol-Yalta highway.
After the deputy head of Rosavtodor, Igor Astakhov, said that 368 million rubles for the construction, repair and maintenance of roads in Crimea disappeared in an unknown direction, the topic of road construction for the leadership of the republic became zealous in relations with the federal authorities. The desire to distribute contracts only among Crimean construction companies showed by the summer that there was not enough capacity, and it was necessary to hire Kuban road workers to help. Further more - the money for settlements for the work performed did not arrive on time due to the liquidation of the Ministry of Crimean Affairs and the transfer of finances to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. A number of Crimean contractors were forced to dismiss their employees because they did not have a cushion to wait for payment.
“In Crimea there is not enough capacity to absorb federal budget funds for federal targeted program facilities,” confirms the acting. Head of the Crimean Department of the Federal Tax Service Roman Nazdrachev.
It is for this reason that taxes from construction contractors are received not by the republic, but by neighboring regions. Crimea, at best, can count on income taxes from employees.
Of the 23,6 billion rubles of Crimea’s own collections, 11,3 billion rubles are personal income taxes, most of which are from the budget sector. Another 6 billion rubles is VAT, which reflects revenue from goods sold in Crimea. The excise tax, which previously in the Crimean budget reached 60% of its own revenues, dropped to 2 billion rubles, and the transport tax, the revenues of which are counted in the road fund, dropped from the planned 77 million rubles to 28 million rubles.
Receipts from industrial enterprises since the beginning of the year amounted to almost 9 billion rubles, which clearly does not fit with the basic postulates of the budget-forming industry: the budget of Armyansk, tied to the production of Titan, needs subsidies of tens of millions of rubles to cover the deficit in expenditures.
Hopes to boost the economy with the preferential treatment of SEZs have not yet been confirmed by the number of residents - 53 organizations and 2 individual entrepreneurs have received the tax status of participants. And this is out of 163 signed investment agreements.
“In Crimea, the pace of decision-making is different,” says the head of the tax office.
At this rate, asking for a double portion of butter with a bun, and then tea with sugar, can only be explained by the Russian proverb: strike hot while there is iron.
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