Moreover, the fiscal officials work very clumsily. Aleksievskaya was in a deplorable state for a long time, which was aggravated by the market situation – coal prices were at low level. Instead of paying attention to the conditions in which the miners worked and to the culprits who brought Aleksievskaya to bankruptcy in 2016, the Federal Tax Service decided to skin three of the contractors and creditors who came to hand. And she filed a lawsuit against them for 4.3 billion. The tax authorities were helped in this by an “expertise” in which coal prices were taken from the ceiling and inflated by 300-350% of the then actually existing value, determined by specialists from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Not giving a damn about the official standards for calculating prices for coal, the “expert” described the conclusions needed by tax officials, which now threaten the entire coal industry with unfounded claims. And not only that: the same experience can be extended to other areas of business.
With the help of a dubious examination, the Federal Tax Service managed to outwit the Arbitration Court of the Kemerovo Region, which decided to recover “damages” from the former owners of the mine for allegedly reduced prices for coal. But now the case is already in the 7th Court of Appeal, and there the defendants are counting on restoration of justice thanks to a new, independent examination. Evidence in favor of their rightness is an anonymous information campaign blaming the defendants for all the troubles of Aleksievskaya. I wonder who can put so much pressure on the court?
It’s especially touching how the Federal Tax Service with its own hands creates anti-advertising to President Vladimir Putin’s calls for business to invest in Russian projects. At this rate, the latter will run away before the tax authorities drive them into artificial debt.
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