Important issues largely depend on the Republic’s agricultural development level, and above all, population employment and food security. The Minister of Revenues and Taxes, Yevgeny Lavryonov, in an interview with a correspondent of the DPR Official Website, spoke about the changes in the legislation on the DPR agriculture development, rates in this sector and the projections for the year 2020.
“As far as tax legislation simplification is concerned, we have not yet completed this process in the field of agriculture. We have not yet formed the position on livestock breeders, but I believe that the issue will be settled soon. There are controversial issues because the people have sustained bad damage due to hostilities. The same farmers say that they need enough money to be invested in the agricultural sector. They ask to be exempted from all taxes for almost five years or to pay a minimum turnover tax,” Evgeny Lavryonov explained.
He stressed that the procedural issues are being finalized in the course of negotiations with farmers, and changes will be made to the law on the tax system for stockbreeding.
“It is worth noting that 2019 was a pretty good year for the agricultural sector, it brought a rather high yield. This is confirmed by statistics from the Ministry of Agro-Industrial Policy and Food, as well as tax payments. We hope that the year 2020 will also bring us a good result. In 2019, a state-owned corporation became the flagship in agriculture, the declared gross output amounted to about one billion rubles in crop production alone. Other large agrarians also showed a considerable increase.
I know that the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food is developing measures to build up agricultural production. Investment projects on pig breeding complexes are being discussed with the participation of the Revenues and Taxes Ministry. I have personally held meetings on the cost structure of our combined feed mills.
The major activities of the Ministry of Revenues and Duties comprise two issues — that is the formation of the taxation subject and control over the taxation object,” Evgeny Lavryonov said.