MOSCOW, August 1, Elena Savelyeva. In August, the law on the introduction of the digital ruble and the creation of an appropriate platform will come into force. The recycling fee for cars and buses will increase — foreign cars will rise in price noticeably. In Minvody enter the resort fee. And private medical clinics will now be able to consult patients online. About these and other legislative innovations — in the material.
Digital ruble
Along with cash and non-cash money, since August 1, Russia has a third form of national currency — the digital ruble. A single operator is the Central Bank. Funds are stored as a code in the regulator's e-wallet. Individuals will have access to them using the applications of any bank. But first, the system will be tested by companies and legal entities.
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As Denis Polyakov, Deputy Director of the National Payment System Department of the Bank of Russia, specified, the pilot project starts with the ability to pay in digital currency. by a static QR code through a banking application. Then they will add payment via smartphone, and offline transactions will be connected in a year and a half to two years.
“No one is going to force anyone into the digital ruble. This is absolutely voluntary, an additional opportunity for people: if they want, they use it, if they want, they don’t use it. But we really hope that it will be more convenient, cheaper for both people and business” , — explained the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina.
According to the law, digital rubles are considered non-cash funds, the rights to which are inherited, including through a will. The payment procedure will be determined by the government in agreement with the Central Bank.
Utilization duty on cars
Recycling duty is indexed for cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses, both new and used.
The rate will increase by 1.7-3.7 times for cars (depending on engine size), 2.5-3.4 times for light commercial vehicles, and 1.7 times for trucks. For buses — 2.2-4.8, electric buses — 8.7.
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This will affect legal entities importing imported new and used cars, as well as individuals buying cars abroad for resale within one year. For those who bring cars with an engine capacity of up to three liters for personal use, indexation does not apply.
As emphasized in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, prices for domestic cars will not increase, the department will continue state support for the industry, including under the program of preferential car loans.
Well, according to market participants, foreign cars will rise in price significantly.
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Increase in pensions
The Social Fund of Russia will conduct an unclaimed recalculation of insurance pensions for pensioners who worked in 2022. The adjustment will affect all recipients of old-age and disability benefits for whom employers made contributions last year.
Unlike traditional indexation, which implies an increase by a fixed coefficient, the August recalculation depends on the pensioner's salary: the higher it is, the greater the increase. The maximum is three pension coefficients. According to preliminary data, about 9.5 million people will notice it.
They will also increase the funded and fixed-term pensions for participants in the co-financing program. This is due not so much to the work of a pensioner (since 2014, employers' contributions to pension savings have been directed to an insurance pension), but to the results of investment by management companies in the previous year. by ten percent, for 40 thousand participants of the co-financing program — by 9.83%.
Tourism
Mineralnye Vody introduces resort tax. The experiment in the Stavropol Territory is already being implemented in Essentuki, Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk and Zheleznovodsk. They charge 100 rubles per person. Last year, more than 202,000 vacationers paid the fee.
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The authorities consider this fee as “an additional development tool that will contribute to the construction, reconstruction and improvement of resort infrastructure.”
There is also a resort fee in Gelendzhik — for the five months of 2023, they received 7.8 million rubles from tourists. According to the head of the city, this tax is very important for the development of the resort areas of the municipality.
St. Petersburg will join the experiment next year. Adult tourists staying in hotels for more than a day will have to pay 100 rubles a day. Various beneficiaries will be released from this, including veterans of the Great Patriotic War, blockade survivors, Heroes of Russia and the USSR. The tax will not affect the local population.
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Online consultations of doctors and medicines
An experimental legal regime (EPR) has been in effect since August: private medical clinics were allowed to consult patients online for repeated visits.
EPR will cover 15 medical organizations with the appropriate license, as well as the necessary IT infrastructure. This includes RZD-Medicine, Medsi Group JSC, Sberbank (Innovative Medicine LLC), Doctor Nearby LLC, M-line LLC, Renclinika LLC, Evropeisky JSC medical center.
Doctors will be able to consult patients from different cities and regions. EPR is designed to increase the availability of medical care and promote the development of telemedicine technologies.
that they will have the opportunity not to come personally to the clinic when they return, but to receive recommendations remotely.
At the same time, it is allowed to choose an attending physician.Prescriptions for medicines will also be issued online.
In addition, from August 13, a list of vital and essential drugs.New dosage forms for the treatment of hepatitis C, drugs for gastrointestinal diseases and metabolic disorders, immunosuppressants and opioids.For example, coated granules appeared in the drug «glecaprevir + pibrentasvir» (for the treatment of hepatitis C) .