The government does not approve of “junk” fees from the sellers of fast food

The government does not approve of “junk” fees from the sellers of fast food


The introduction of local tax on the sellers of fast food proposed by the Deputy from LDPR Mikhail Degtyarev. The purpose of this measure is to compensate the budgets of expenses for the organization of collection and removal of garbage.

MOSCOW, 27 Jan. The government does not support the introduction of local collecting from organizations and individual entrepreneurs, selling food to fast food (fast food), as it contradicts earlier position of speciality tax until 2019.

At the conclusion of the government made on Tuesday by Deputy Mikhail Degtyarev (LDPR) bill to introduce the levy from 1 January 2017 it is noted that in accordance with the instructions of the President of Russia “it is necessary to provide in the period from 2015 to 2018, inclusive, the same conditions of taxation set to 1 January 2015, the legislation on taxes and fees”.

The bill was designed to compensate local budgets the costs of organizing collection and removal of garbage appearing in the settlements due to the activities of the organizations of public catering selling fast food. The evaluation model, in case of determining tax to the revenues of local budgets in 2017 additionally, it may do no more than 8.7 billion rubles. However, he admits that, “most likely, the total amount of the paid fee will be less.”

The fee may be set by normative legal acts of representative bodies of municipalities, laws of cities of Federal significance Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Sevastopol. Thus the tax rates should be set in rubles per semester per area of the hall.

Rate fee for food service establishments with facilities for visitors may not exceed 183 rubles for one square meter of the object, and in the absence of such a hall — 550 rubles. “Because all food is consumed using them, and the garbage is left outside of the institution,” explained Degtyarev higher charge for schools that do not have room service, there are various stalls and kiosks selling fast food.

Payers of the fee must be organizations or individual entrepreneurs providing catering services on a reimbursable contract, in the list of distributed food products of which at least half of the positions are meals and food products of fast preparation, which are placed in the container or the utensils are disposable.