Excise duty on the road

The Russian government has decided to increase excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. Expected result - higher prices of gasoline on average by almost 5 rubles. As the bone with the master's table of motorists waiting for reducing the basic rate of vehicle tax in half. Russian motorists, arranging pickets against the increase of the transport tax, offering to make it to the cost of gasoline, unwittingly prompted the mother to the Government a few ways you can finally "undress" his people. One of them has adopted a Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is urgently looking for ways to patch a hole in the bloated budget for next year. Numerous national projects, the Sochi construction, increase pensions and indexation of salaries of civil servants, as well as the resurrection of the Road Fund, will draw about 800 billion rubles over and above what can spend the country. Therefore, Kudrin, in fact a supporter tighten the belt, together with the Ministry of Transport has started to decide on what would susekam scrape together the required sum. Naturally, first glance fell on no evil, contrary to his own statements, the oil companies. For a start he has made the abolition of tax breaks for oil fields in Eastern Siberia, and then found the support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the issue to increase export duties on gas and oil, and the crown of all was the dramatic increase in the excise tax. But all of this, the old tradition, reflected primarily in the wallets of ordinary people. In this case, as well as in history with an increase in vehicle tax, when the responsibility was shifted to local authorities, the government, as it were under the wrath of the people does not fit. It's not us, they say, prices are raised - is there oil on the people cashing in ". Already in September, the State Duma will be asked to amend the Tax and Budget Codes, which will form the regional and federal road funds. The latter will be extended not only through excise taxes - here go the same charges on trucks weighing over 12 tons. According to Transport Minister Igor Levitin, plans to lead in 2015 to standard 85% of the roads. Now those - 35%. The Minister even promised to reduce the accident rate on roads. Just give money! In addition, in 2011 launched a program of construction of rural roads: to settlements, where more than 125 people will be laid paved road. And they, the lame duck, so thought that we had forgotten them in the 18 th century. It remains only to realize that it will be a hard surface. Crushed something not too soft. Finally, in 2015, planned to fix bridges, among which six thousand one thousand - in disrepair. However, there is a suspicion that bad looking. You are naive to ask about the control of expenditure of funds? Do not worry! Everything is thought. Ministry of Regional Development is already working on changing standards of road construction. At the head angle will be quality, advanced technology and cost optimization. That is, ideally, the phrase "Oh, and I'm just a matchmaker firm engaged in road ..." no longer has to work. But we know on which floor is part fiction. The same applies to the announced "independent" experts who should control it all. According to Levitin, as soon as regulatory and share financing transport communications, land acquisition and construction of trails. This supposedly will reveal the real cost price of the road. And she is likely to be somewhat lower than that for which it was possible to spread the same area a couple of inches of red game. As for the cost of gasoline, then it within three years of planning to raise 1 ruble per liter of fuel. At the end of this period it will reach the level of funding for roads by 60%. Already in 2011 the volume of the Road Fund should amount to little more than 377 billion rubles, an increase to 408 billion in 2013. In this case, according to Kudrin, the increase of excise duties should not substantially affect the price of fuel, which in 2009 alone increased by three rubles. But experts say that pure arithmetic in this matter does not work, and growth will be according to various estimates by an average of 5 rubles per liter. Logically, such a charge and did cancel the motor vehicle tax. However, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved a reduction in its base rate by half. In this region will leave the right to change it as downwards and upwards.