Good news: companies that are engaged in the introduction of innovation and energy -saving technologies can count on tax preferences and the rate of insurance premiums remaining at 14%.
Bad news: for those who are not engaged in the introduction of innovations and energy -saving technologies, insurance premiums will be increased from 26% to 32%. This gives the state the opportunity not only to stimulate the innovative development of the Russian economy, but also to fulfill its increased social obligations to citizens, primarily to pensioners.
Tax incentive awaits enterprises that introduce energy -efficient equipment – this may be exemption from property tax for up to 3 years. Commercial organizations providing citizens with education and healthcare services, and similar non -profit organizations will be exempted from income tax for 8 years. A simplified system will be more widely applied to taxation based on a patent, which will make accounting services less time -consuming.
At the same time, experts are in doubt that the development of innovation can develop only at the expense of tax preferences. They should be only one of the elements in the system of interaction between power and business. However, the clear concept of such interaction has not yet been developed, evidence of which is the dispamain of proposals regarding tax incentive and proposed by various ministries and representatives of the business community.
Another important detail: in order for the company to receive tax preferences for its innovative activity, it is required to determine what can be attributed to innovation, and this will require an extra bureaucratic procedure. There is also a danger that unscrupulous companies, having received innovative status, will be able to evade taxes.
Some experts believe that innovative technologies and products should be self -sufficient and not demand any tax concessions. Then the state will be able to direct income received in the form of taxes to stimulate fundamental science and improve the training of highly qualified personnel, which, in turn, will be able to make an efficient development of new innovations.
In this regard, a special responsibility falls on the tax service, the tasks of which include the creation of optimal conditions for law -abiding businessmen can fully use the tax preferences assigned to them.