per month.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged to fight the so-called envelope salaries, this need, he said at a meeting on mobilizing additional revenues to the federal budget. The Prime Minister pointed out that the need for effective measures to legalize salaries. In his opinion, people need to understand that «envelope salaries» in the long run, reduce the possibilities of the budget in the future deprives workers pensions.
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first vice-president of «Russian Club CFO» Tamara Kasyanov:
Receive official salaries — is a direct interest in the employee, the only way to form full pensions, guaranteed payment of sick leave. Grey salary significantly limits the possibility of loan products of banks and reduces the size of credits, prevents the correct calculation of alimony payments and establishing solvency citizens. In addition, with gray salary schemes involve difficulties in determining the level of life in Russia, which to some extent prevents the establishment of effective mechanisms of social support from the state.
In that wages are paid in accordance with the laws of the State concerned and the society, but business continues on a massive scale to remunerate workers gray schemes, due to the desire to reduce the financial costs. With a monthly salary the employer makes payments to social funds, the size of which is 30% of the colonies from the salary of the employee. This is a considerable burden on business, especially if it is associated with intellectual, not manufacturing.
Just recently, the Investigative Committee of the Interior Ministry released details on the amount of gray salaries in Russia amounts comparable with the volume all the money and are about 4 billion dollars and 241 billion rubles. The data are the official UK, meaning they can not reflect the full amount of the «shadow economy.» According to unofficial statistics, Russian employers pay in envelopes at least 30-40% of salary, which is about 500 billion rubles. a month. This is a significant amount. And legalization of money can lead to a noticeable improvement of the economy of the country.
All-Russian public organization «Russian Club CFO» supports the efforts of the authorities to the conclusion that the market wages in the legislative field. The success of this initiative will require serious collaboration of legislative, executive and judicial power. Despite the fact that the decline of gray salaries will cause loss of stability of many companies that need to be made. The law must be respected, and his offense should be duly punished. If the company prospers only in violation of the law, it has no place in the market.
Among the measures that could lead to fruitful results, one of the first can be identified gain control over the activities of tax authorities: they are quite able to identify cases of apparent disparity between wages in individual companies average level. Instead of through taxes to replenish the federal budget, some of the employees engaged in self-enrichment, receiving bribes and «blind eye» to cases of salary schemes. And such action should be stopped firmly and categorically, including criminal prosecution.
Given that the volume of gray market wage is equal to or even exceed the total money supply in the country, and can talk about the introduction of tax breaks. In the end, the tax cuts and simultaneous tightening of control over the implementation of the tax legislation will increase the revenue of the budget.