the Ministry promised to ensure the real growth of pensions until 2024. And then, over the horizon – hamlet’s silence: according to the Agency, everything will depend on the budget of the Pension Fund, the rate of filling. Meanwhile, the incomes of the FIU fall, and its real, not advertised the deficit is estimated at hundreds of billions of rubles. And now the government has introduced a bill designed at least partly to fill this gaping void.
the Ministry of Finance proposed to transfer to the FIU of the funds, the legality of which it is impossible to prove. Experts have warned that gaps in the domestic legal basis can lead to the fact that confiscation affects not only scams, but also of many respectable citizens.
Externally, the measure looks sensible: and corrupt struggle, and to pensioners will not apostolois. But is there not some share of populism and hidden dangers? We are talking about amendments to articles 46 and 47 of the Budget code in terms of clarifying the list of revenues of the budget of the FIU. As explained in the Ministry of Finance is required to sync with the norms of the Civil code. To confiscate in favor of the state will not only property and money, “obtained through the Commission of corruption offenses”. It is expected that the new rules will take effect in December 2020.
As stated by the Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, this year the Pension Fund first received funds in the amount of 21.4 billion rubles from the sale of confiscated property of corrupt officials, which has not been confirmed by revenue. But it seems that the state puts on one Board two fundamentally different problems: corruption schemes and exhaustion FIU, solving second through the first.
in addition, it remains unanswered a number of questions. For example, what are the criteria for “suspicious” withdrawal? What is the minimum amount guaranteed to raise doubts about controlling authorities? Who will carry out checks regarding the legality of the funds? The financial authorities have not decided. Scares one more thing: at the end of 2019, the constitutional court said that property can be seized from any individual, not only officials and relatives, are subject to the law on control over expenses of state employees. Accordingly, the money can now take the first available, and on mysterious criteria.
As recalled by a member of the Board of Confederation of labour of Russia Pavel Kudyukin, Russia still has not ratified the relevant article of the United Nations, which is intended for illegal enrichment. The interlocutor of “MK” is not very clear how on what basis and specifically who will be withdrawn the money. Moreover, in world practice, this provision only applies to officials, heads of state companies and the persons holding the public posts.
At a glance Kudykina, the bill in its current form is flawed socio — civil servants likely to be able to fend off forfeiture (if not followed by a special command from above), but ordinary citizens — barely. About 35-40 million Russians is not a good life engaged in the informal economy, working without contracts and legal registration, receive meager salaries “in envelopes”. These people will be exposed. It turns out, by robbing some poor people of the state to provide pensions of other beggars. Moreover, raised the funds thus unlikely to be enough to eliminate the deficit of the Pension Fund.
the Bill threatens to turn into a weapon of mass destruction, considers the expert of the National anti-corruption Committee, lawyer Victor Tsymbal. According to him, in practice in specific cases has already been considered by the courts, the property is easily withdrawn from persons not in any way connected with the perpetrator. This can be, for example, a bona fide purchaser of a car and an apartment that was once owned by the corrupt. In 99% of cases, this person does not know, whose income acquired property. The decision on confiscation issued long before the verdict.
as to whether there is any threshold for “suspicious” amount Tsymbal notes that the Tax code is “sleeping” article. Apparently, soon it will begin to apply. It is recorded that all citizens, without exception, are required to confirm their expenses on the sum over 600 thousand roubles. Up to 2000 years this rule was extended to the purchase of houses, building materials and machines. Given the fact that we now have a single digital tax base, the state will ask for a large expenditure, not only with officials and gradually to reach the masses.
the Adoption of innovations will not make pensioners are much richer. More correct display of the shade of gray salaries, here is the main resource for increase of pensions, says the head of IAC “Alpari” Alexander Razuvaev.
