A list of goods has been compiled, the illegal transportation of which will cost more
The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation plans to clarify the new rules for transporting goods across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union. A discussion of the draft resolution of the Russian Government prepared by the department began on the portal of regulatory legal acts.
The document deals with punishment for non-payment of customs and other payments when transporting goods across the EurAsEC border. Today, smuggling of relatively small batches is an administrative offense, and if we are talking about a large and especially large batch size (several batches) it is a criminal offense. The punishment for transporting a large consignment can be quite severe: a fine from one hundred thousand to half a million rubles, or the salary of the convicted person for a period of one to three years, other options are compulsory labor for up to four hundred and eighty hours or forced labor for up to two years, also The code provides for imprisonment for the same period. The large or small amount of unpaid taxes is established depending on the value of the shipment.
In early April, the State Duma adopted a law on some liberalization of Russian customs legislation, increasing the large and especially large amounts of unpaid taxes by one and a half times. Previously, “large size” was 2 million rubles, now it is 3 million. “Particularly large” — 6 million (according to the new rule — 9 million). At the same time, legislators made a reservation — the old rules apply for certain groups of goods (2 million and 6 million rubles). True, the government has not yet decided which groups of goods we are talking about. It is this gap that the Ministry of Finance is filling.
The old rules will apply to the import and export of fish and crustaceans, mollusks and other aquatic invertebrates, cereals, alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, nicotine, precious metals, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, precious stones, oil and petroleum products, wood, vehicles.
However, the new rules will come into force in July 2017.