The State Duma Committee on the Financial Market refused to support the opinion of Anatoly Wasserman that they should report to the tax authorities on the presence of funds from the Russians in the account of more than 1 million rubles. About this RBC declaration Oleg Savchenko, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Financial Market Committee.
“I definitely take it negatively. Because it is the right of citizens to choose how the funds from which taxes are paid will be used,” he said.
According to him, there is no apparent reason to limit the right of Russians to use their funds. Moreover, from a macroeconomic point of view, such a restriction will not affect anything.
Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Financial Market Committee, added that the bill will be considered comprehensively.
Early Monday Wasserman supplied A bill obliging citizens holding more than 1 million rubles in cash in rubles and foreign currency to report this to the tax office and disclose the source of funds. He proposed amendments to the Penal Code by adding a clause on the illegal circulation of money.