The head of the Federal Tax Service made the “last Chinese warning” to catering with zero revenue

The head of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) of the Russian Federation, Daniil Egorov, at the Opora Rossii forum, drew attention to public catering, which hides its revenue. He issued “the last Chinese warning” to the business.

Since 2022, catering enterprises whose annual revenue does not exceed 2 billion rubles have been exempted from VAT.

“About public catering, we calculated that we have a plus of 2.5 billion rubles. pure taxes we received from the industry due to this let’s call it the microtax maneuver. But at the same time, we see companies that do not show revenue in catering. We are far from the fact that we would really dream of opening the tax control chapter of the Tax Code in this part, but otherwise there will be unequal competition, so we will consider this the last Chinese warning, ”said Mr. Egorov during the forum (quote from TASS).

The head of the Federal Tax Service also said that Russian business, with the help of the debt restructuring platform, received an installment plan for 670 billion rubles. This made it possible to cover the cash gap, continue working and save more than 120,000 jobs. As Mr. Yegorov pointed out, 96 kopecks from each ruble have already been received by the budget by the due dates – 592 billion rubles have been repaid. “Not a single business went bankrupt after the restructuring, which means that this is an even bigger plus for the budgets,” he added.

According to the calculations of the Kontur.Focus service, in January-March 2023, 5.2 thousand organizations stopped working in the catering market throughout Russia, which is a third less than a year. The number of openings of new food outlets lags behind last year’s figures.

Read more about the closure and opening of catering establishments in 2023 – in the material “Kommersant” “Restaurants are full”.

Leonid Uvarchev