To stabilize diesel prices, the state needs to intervene and abolish two types of taxes. His proposal in an interview with Lenta.ru voice Nikolai Arefiev, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy.
According to parliamentarians, oil workers should be exempted from paying mining extraction tax (MET) and transport tax.
“Domestic producers of course include MET in the price, so fuel and lubricant prices are primarily driven by this tax. If it were abolished, the price today would have dropped to 30 rubles per liter, ”Arefiev explained.
According to him, lawmakers repeatedly raised the issue of regulating the prices of essential goods, including gasoline. Arefiev summed up that “everything will go back to normal” if NDPI is cancelled.
“It’s also worth exempting from shipping tax, five years ago it was “sticky” to the price of gasoline, and now we pay the shipping tax on gasoline, plus shipping tax,” he added.
The parliamentarian recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin talked about the need to abolish the transport tax on oil workers.
The previous day, the currency price of AI-95 gasoline rose to 70,959 thousand rubles per ton, exceeding the previously set historical maximum. The weekly price of diesel fuel increased by 10 percent to 68-70 rubles per liter.
Previously, the Ministry of Energy did not support offer About limiting the price of diesel fuel.