A large number of state corporations in Russia negatively affects competition. This was stated by the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexey Kudrin at the Moscow Financial Forum, reports TASS. He called for providing conditions for the arrival of private investors.
“We have something not a regular state, national scale problem, we create a new state corporation,” Kudrin said. According to him, “the state corporations blocked the entire platform in our country,” and to realize some kind of project in Russia, it is necessary to work with the state-owned company. The head of the Accounts Chamber believes that there is a bad investment climate in the country. The volume of private investments will grow, if you provide business more freedom, Kudrin said.
The definition of the state corporation is registered in the Federal Law “On Non-Profit Organizations”. According to the document, state corporations are created to implement certain useful functions – social, public or managerial. Control over their activities is carried out by the Accounts Chamber. At the end of March, she reported that he found violations in Roskosmos for a total amount of about 30 billion rubles.
In early September, Kudrin called on to reduce the participation of the public sector in the Russian economy. He reproached state-owned companies in the bureaucraticity, which is why they rarely become economic and innovative drivers. The main shareholder of state-owned companies is the state. Kudrin recalled that in the top ten largest Russian companies only four are private, unlike the United States, where there is not a single similar company. It is believed that private companies are working more efficiently. Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the authorities do not plan to spend privatization.
Earlier, Alexey Kudrin said that he did not see the meaning in the proposal of the Ministry of Finance to increase taxes and index excise taxes, since such measures were exhausted. He also reminded that in 2018 the government promised six years not to change taxes.