Not everyone will pay: the State Duma proposed to partially cancel the recycling
Parliamentarians have drafted a bill providing for the abolition of the recycling fee for certain types of cars. Izvestia found out which vehicles can be exempted from paying for "scrap".
Add Procedures
Amendments to the law "On Production and Consumption Waste" have been submitted to the State Duma for consideration, which involve expanding the list of vehicles that are exempt from paying the recycling fee. The document is posted in the legislative support system of the Parliament.
Currently, recycling does not apply to vehicles that are the personal property of participants in the state program for the resettlement of compatriots living abroad in the Russian Federation, belong to diplomatic missions or consular offices, as well as their employees and their family members. In addition, this fee is not paid for cars manufactured 30 years ago or more, as well as for cars intended for temporary import (admission). According to the bill submitted to the State Duma, this list is planned to be expanded at the expense of vehicles that are placed under the customs procedure of a "customs warehouse, free warehouse or processing in the customs territory."
According to the authors of the amendments, during these customs procedures, cars "retain the status of foreign goods, and such procedures are mostly completed by the re-export of goods." In particular, machines under these procedures, according to Articles 23, 24 and 28 of the EAEU Customs Code, are not in free circulation on the territory of Russia, their use for their functional purpose is prohibited (in the case of a customs warehouse), allowed only for the purposes stipulated by the terms of the procedure (if they are in a "free warehouse"), or only for their processing, follows from the accompanying documents to the draft law. In other words, the customs status of such vehicles does not provide for their introduction into free circulation on the territory of the Russian Federation and their operation on Russian roads.
"The payment of a recycling fee when goods are placed under the specified customs procedures seems unreasonable and contrary to the nature of the need to collect it," the explanatory note to the amendments says.
At the same time, as specified in the financial and economic justification for the draft law, all taxes and fees, including recycling, will be paid in full, "in case the customs procedure is completed by releasing [the vehicle] for domestic consumption."
Logic and justice
Nikita Kolesnikov, a representative of the Japanese export company HSS in the Russian Federation, believes that the key change is the proposed abolition of the obligation to pay in advance for scrap for companies that import vehicles and their components not for sale in Russia, but for subsequent storage, processing or assembly for the purpose of re-export. Now this procedure is mandatory, which creates significant financial costs and makes export-oriented operations economically impractical, he notes.
— This bill is designed to eliminate this contradiction by introducing a logical and fair principle: recycling is paid when the car is finally imported into the Russian market and becomes a source of future waste. If the goods leave the country after storage or industrial assembly, the duty to pay the fee does not arise at all, Nikita Kolesnikov told Izvestia.
According to him, the main benefit from the adoption of these amendments is to support Russian business and stimulate non—primary exports. Companies will be able to free up funds from turnover and compete more effectively in the international arena, the expert notes. At the same time, the interests of the budget are also protected: if the vehicles are eventually sold on the Russian market, the scrap collection will be collected from the importer on a general basis at the time of release of these vehicles into free circulation, Nikita Kolesnikov explained.
Transshipment point
Cars that are imported to Russia for subsequent export to other countries exist, but their share is small, says Igor Morzharetto, partner at the Autostat analytical agency. According to him, first of all, we are talking about cars that are imported through the Russian Far East and then sent to the CIS countries.
— According to this scheme, for example, some right-hand drive vehicles from Japan and some car models from South Korea are imported to Central Asian countries. Russia is a kind of transit point for these cars. The share of such vehicles is small, but they exist," he told Izvestia.
Not for us
The proposed bill does not affect the Russian car market and concerns a very narrow segment of the automotive business focused on re-export to third countries, said Anton Shaparin, Vice President of the National Automobile Union.
— Russian car owners now expect something completely different from legislators: benefits for paying the recycling fee for individuals. Many will find themselves in a very difficult situation when their cars arrive at the Russian border. Within a month, if the new payment rules come into force, citizens who have ordered and paid for a car abroad will need to pay a recycling fee at significantly higher rates, and many simply do not have the money for this. And this will affect tens of thousands of Russians. The problems of these people will not disappear from the adoption of the proposed bill," Anton Shaparin told Izvestia.
Maxim Kadakov, editor-in-chief of Za Rulem magazine, also believes that the proposed changes affect a fairly narrow range of importers.
— The proposed amendments apply only to vehicles that are not supposed to be put into circulation and operated in Russia. Their share in the total volume of automobile imports is quite modest. The vast majority of importers who import cars into our country will not be affected by this initiative," said the editor—in-chief of Za Rulem.
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