The reader wrote to the editor with a request to pay attention to the features of the Russian recycling fee for cars in the light of the changes that occurred after the start of his own. The Moscove Post correspondent analyzed the situation and revealed a beneficiary in the person of the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
One of the readers of The Moscow Post shared an observation. The Government of the Russian Federation is going to increase the utilization fee for cars by 70-85%since 2024, but at the same time it continues to pay the Western Auto Conceases excessively paid payments of this single tax on old transactions. The situation for Russians worsens, and for foreigners who have left the Russian Federation, on the contrary, it improves, although we pay taxes within the country, and they – abroad, therefore, money can go to financing Ukraine and the Nazi Kyiv regime.
Alikhanov’s recycling collection
This idea is the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, which has been headed by the former governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov since May 2024. If the ministry’s proposal is accepted, then imported cars will become inaccessible to the vast majority of Russians.
Anton Alikhanov. Photo: https://kaliningrad.sm.news/anton-alixanov-pozdravil-prokuraturo-300-letnim-yubileem-91091-u3t5/
In addition to a one-time increase in the recycling fee, its annual increase of 10-20% until 2030 is planned, in fact, until the end of the powers of the current government of the Russian Federation.
I will give numbers: according to this regulatory act, a utilization fee for a car with an engine volume of 1 to 2 liters next year will amount to about 667 thousand rubles, from 2 to 3 liters – 1.875 million rubles, and more than 3.5 liters – 2.284 million rubles. For this money, before the pandemia Covid-19, you could buy a new car with the specified liter. It is clear that since then the situation in the country has changed dramatically, but still you need to sometimes think about the people.
The fact is that today only the FCS recalls people here, which in the winter-spring has sent the requirements for the surcharge of the utilization fee (hundreds of thousands of rubles) to Russians who imported cars from abroad for parallel Import. And this, as we see, only flowers, soon the numbers will grow by an order of magnitude.
Car supply in the Russian Federation fell
The departure of Western companies in 2022 led to the Russian Federation to two trends: firstly, the supply of cars in the market fell three times, and secondly, the prices for them doubled. It is not easy to solve this problem, and the point here is not only in the purchasing power of Russians. We just cannot produce as many cars as before, and we produce little ourselves.
The bet on Western companies led to the fact that after the Draconian sanctions, for example, we can collect the Niva, which is distinguished by the injector of the Bosch injector and other insignificant changes. Localization of production until 2022 was in Russia at an insufficient level. The dosanction flagship of AvtoVAZ Lada Vesta included only a few Russian components, the rest it was a foreign car, and all this happened with the consent of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Denis Manturov. Photo: http://www.tribuna.nad.ru/zhdem-denisa-manturova-glavnyj-po-torgovle-priedet-v-komi/
Thus, the support of the domestic manufacturer from the utilization fee is ephemeral. And so almost everything that is produced in Russia is sold out, even if the quality of such machines raises questions, so this solution has other goals.
Sobyaninsky “Moskvich”
Lawyers of this step will say: “Everyone pays a recycling fee, it applies to both Russian and Western companies.” True, but only in Russia there is a program of stimulating automobile production, which gives preferences of internal assembly. Previously, she motivated Western companies to carry production here. Now the Chinese should come in their place, but they are still afraid of sanctions and are not directly included in the Russian market, as a result of which muddy schemes arise in domestic automobile production.
The most characteristic project was the Moskvich plant, in the framework of which Sergey Sobyanin and its administration stagged import substitution in automobile production. This enterprise with the Soviet AZLK plant has only a common brand, in reality it is the capacity of the former chief owner of AvtoVAZ of the French Auto -Conceived Renault.
Sergey Sobyanin. Photo: https://akwatoria.ru/meriya/
Today, there are cars of the Jac Motors Chinese concern under the Moskvich Schildik under the Moskvich Schildik. They are issued as a Russian car and therefore have the right to tax benefits that give an advantage over parallel imports.
The launch of this disgrace in November 2022 was solemnly carried out by Sobyanin and the former head of the same Ministry of Industry and Trade, and now Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. And now, a year and a half after this event, a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation was proposed, which actually plays in favor of the Sobyaninsky “Muscovite”. Demand for such cars will be – people are forced to take them at current prices, which will drive a recycling fee even more.
Automobile and utilization business
The founder of MAZ Moskvich JSC is the STR LLC, which is owned by JSC “OEZ” Technopolis Moscow “and AO” IPK “, and they are already commercial organizations on the balance sheet of the Department of State Property in Moscow.
Photo: rusprofile.ru
The general director of this structure was the natural “Varangian” Hans-Piter Moser, who received Russian citizenship in 2022, and before that he worked in Naberezhnye Chelny at Kamaz for nine years. Since the time of Marat Khusnullin, who in 2020 left the Moscow City Hall to the Government of the Russian Federation, a powerful team from Tatarstan has formed in the capital, so it is not surprising why the Moskvich is developing through KAMAZ.
Moser is a representative of not only Russian capital, but also Kazakhstan. He still holds the position of general director of Hit Motors Rus LLC, whose end beneficiary is spelled out a limited liability partnership “High End Essembli Technodemes Motors”, Kazakhstan. The result of the Moser’s activity as the head of the Moskvich was that the plan for the production of cars in 2023 was not fulfilled, but this did not prevent an increase in the recycling collection.
All the heroes of this story of a friend know. Alikhanov is a native of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Manturov protege, who took the first career steps in Moscow when Sobyanin was already headed. The metropolitan mayor and Manturov also have good relations, so everything converges.
Thanks to the increase in the utilization fee of production of the Moskvich type, they will grow like mushrooms and fill the market, the necessary people like the Moser will earn money, and pay ordinary Russians who simply cannot buy a car cheaper.
Unfriendly oddities
This plot with recycling collection and the return side of the medal, namely, strange relations with Russia who left Russia who left Russia, who abandoned their production, customers and Russian workers in 2022.
Marat Khusnullin. Photo: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/28/01/2020/5e302c769A7947C1A9CF6D76
In March 2023, the Government of the Russian Federation found that for the money that was excessively recovered for recycling fees, interest will be accrued, and the practice itself has no restrictions. All car manufacturers, including Western ones, can count on this position if they were withheld funds in excess of the norm, there are no restrictions in the resolution.
And it turns out a strange conflict, which our reader noted – the Russians will have to pay for the import of cars into the country exorbitant prices, and Western companies, whose taxes are for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, can count on compensation through their counterparties in Russia. The conversation here is not about the biggest money, but still the principle is more important.
