The Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Federal Tax Service (FTS) have identified plans for the illegal circulation of medicinal and food alcohols. It has been revealed that more than 40 percent of medical alcohol has been released into the shade since 2020. This was reported by RBC.
During the audit, tax authorities compared raw material and product output volumes and tracked the entire commodity and cash flow chain. As a result, they identified the stage at which payment objectives change or the chain is broken. They then calculated the volume of alcohol intended for medicines, perfumes, cosmetics and household chemicals, but not used for its intended purpose.
According to the audit, the volume of alcohol production for pharmaceuticals and perfumery from 2020 to the first half of 2023 officially amounted to 47.1 million deciliters. Among these, the share of medical alcohol is 18.1 million deciliters, and the share of food alcohol is 29 million deciliters. The Federal Tax Service noted that 11.4 million deciliters of the declared volume (7.6 million deciliters of medical alcohol and 3.8 million deciliters of food alcohol) may have entered the shadow.
It turned out that companies producing perfumes, cosmetics and household chemicals overestimated their production volumes on paper. They used only part of the purchased alcohol, and the rest entered illegal circulation. Alcohol was brought “into the shadow” through sites in Moscow, the Moscow region and other regions.
It was previously known that drug manufacturers took action against the introduction of a consumption tax for medical alcohol.