Some platinum mining companies in the Sverdlovsk region may suspend their activities due to changes in the calculation of the mining tax. About this TASS stated Commissioner for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs in the region Elena Artyukh.
“Many platinum mining companies have experienced a 3.5x increase in their tax burden and it is difficult for them to withstand the financial burden of this change all at once. We received requests from an entire underground user group. According to their representatives, they will have to freeze production if nothing changes.”
According to him, mining in the region comes from alluvial deposits, so metals are extracted as concentrates. In turn, a rental coefficient of 1 is applied to them, since they are an independent object of taxation. But the tax authorities considered in relation to platinum that the coefficient should be at the level of 3.5.
He added that information on the current situation was sent to the President of the Russian Federation, Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs, Boris Titov, who should include it in a report to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
At the end of February, Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Minister of Industry and Trade, during his study trip to the region declarationThat the industrial enterprises of the Luhansk People’s Republic will receive the support of the federal government.