Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin knows about the words of the Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, who accused the metallurgists in the “fattening” of the state for hundreds of billions of rubles. This is reported by TASS.
Previously, Belousov said that metallurgists should return to the country’s budget of 100 billion rubles of excess. The official representative of the Kremlin noted that prices were very high, therefore additional profits were formed. “The government is engaged in this issue with business participants. It is unlikely that you need to look for guilty, this is an economic life. Business makes money, the state receives taxes, and if disproportion arises, the state aligns it,” – appreciated the idea of Belousov Sands.
Previously, the Deputy Prime Minister stated that from the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, metallurgical companies increased the income “at times” – due to the increase in prices in world and domestic markets. Metallurgists received must be returned to the budget in the form of taxes, Belousov is sure.