Customs wants a percentage of cross-border purchases

It looks like our government has found another source of replenishment of the budget. Russians began to buy too much in Western online stores and the Federal Customs Service proposes to introduce a duty on goods up to 1000 euros. Now we are working on the tax “automatically charged when ordering goods on foreign Internet sites and making settlements between the buyer and seller through electronic payment systems.” The size of the tax offered to do from 1% to 10% of the value of the goods. It is not very clear how this tax will be “automatically levied”. There, by the way, it was considered that if they imposed a tax last year, the extra 280 million euros could have been paid to the budget. The Federal Customs Service positions this tax as a “fee for access to the virtual market”.

As usual, they look at Western countries, where the limit of duty-free import is about 100 euros, and we already have 10 times more. Russian online retailers support this initiative - they say that everything turns out to be dishonest, they pay all local taxes and duties, but they don’t buy from them, everyone pulls from western online stores.

Opponents say that there are almost no local producers in Russia who sell something in online stores and which, this tax could support. Most stores runeta sell (resale) of goods of foreign origin.

In general, the tax looks like another way to make money out of thin air (more precisely, from the population), hiding behind “but in the west ...”, and also as a way to make many things more expensive for their own people.
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UPD. Suddenly it turned out that they already collect signatures against such incidents on the ROI . On the initiative page, there is also information from where these initiatives come.