According to the information received RBC According to information from a source at the Ministry of Digital Development, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin rejected the proposal to charge infrastructure fees from marketplaces. This was announced at a meeting on improving the financial and economic situation of Russian Post, attended by Mishustin, Deputy Prime Ministers Dmitry Grigorenko and Dmitry Chernyshenko, vice president Maxim Oreshkin, head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov. Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. Russian Post General Director Mikhail Volkov was also present at the meeting.
The source explained that the Prime Minister does not support the initiative to charge marketplaces because this proposal will most likely be forwarded to buyers. Instead, Russian Post and marketplaces are discussing a possible alternative to infrastructure payment. In previous reports, it was mentioned that Russian Post proposes to impose an obligation on marketplace owners and other e-commerce market participants to make an infrastructure payment of 0.5% of quarterly goods turnover if their annual revenue is at least 1 billion rubles.
Later, the initiative was not supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Shadayev in the spring aforementioned On the need to provide compensation to the Russian Post for the provision of socially important postal services in rural areas where this activity is mostly unprofitable. According to him, the Post Office is in most cases forced to maintain unprofitable branches and guarantee a uniform standard and quality in service delivery. State subsidies to Russian Post were canceled in 2014.
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