MOSCOW, May 12. The programmatic task of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation will be to find resources to carry out the tasks that are defined by the message of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the decree of May 7, said the acting Minister of Finance and candidate for the post of head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov.
“If we talk about the program of the Ministry of Finance, it follows from the tasks that the president defined in the message and the decree signed on May 7 on national development goals and national projects that implement the tasks and goals defined by the president,” Siluanov said about the program of main directions of work at the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, where his candidacy for the post of minister, submitted by the head of government Mikhail Mishustin, is being considered.
«We talked about the importance of a balanced approach in determining budget policy. Since we talked about today's problems of the economy — expensive money. And the problem of expensive money lies, among other things, in a balanced budget policy. We intend to continue to pursue a balanced budget policy based on budget rules, on the fact that the budget has a primary balance, that is, a balance without taking into account the costs of servicing the public debt,” Siluanov said at the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.
«First of all, for enterprises and companies, the predictability of the tax policy is important, which we will follow in the coming six-year period. It is important to maintain the stimulating principles of the tax policy, because through tax rates, deductions, incentives we see that the economy reacts to them, we see “that through tax policy we achieve the goals set by the head of state,” Siluanov said at the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.
“The budget rule is an element of our balanced budget policy, which the president spoke about. And the president has repeatedly repeated that we need to build a policy taking into account the principles and rules that ensure the stability of budget policy, the horizons of budget expenditures, so that the budget is the basis of macroeconomic policy «, Siluanov said at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.
» Just the budget rule and the National Welfare Fund as one of the elements of the formation of reserve funds in case of fluctuations in foreign economic conditions — these elements will remain in our structure of budgetary policy for the upcoming medium-term period… We see that these tools have shown their effectiveness,” Siluanov said.
“Starting next year, the Ministry of Finance plans to use the funds of the National Welfare Fund exclusively for investment development. We have the total volume of the fund. national welfare is a little more than 12 trillion rubles,» Siluanov noted.