Deputies from the Communist party in the Duma introduced a bill on the return of a state monopoly on production and turnover of alcohol. The relevant document posted on the official website of the lower house on Tuesday, July 19.
The bill, according to its authors, will help to solve the problem of alcoholization of the population. In addition, alcohol will become an additional source of revenues of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation in the face of declining revenues from the sale of hydrocarbons,” reads the explanatory note.
The authors of the bill propose to set 1 January 2017 “the state monopoly for manufacture and (or) turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products”. Thus, to engage in the manufacture of alcohol can only state company.
In addition, the deputies pointed out that in Soviet and tsarist times, the budget has received much more money from the sale of alcoholic beverages. “In pre-revolutionary Russia a state monopoly on alcohol and distillery products give 30-35 rubles out of 100 in Soviet times — 20-25 rubles, now — only 80 cents from 100 rubles,” — noted the authors.
This document MPs propose for the first time. In late March of this year deputies from the LDPR Mikhail Degtyaryov and Alexei Didenko submitted to the state Duma draft laws on the introduction of a state monopoly on the production and trafficking of sugar, alcohol, and tobacco since the beginning of 2017. Deputies are not confused, that earlier in the same month, the lower house rejected a similar document on the introduction of state monopoly for manufacture of ethyl alcohol for authorship spravorossov Oleg Nilov, and Oleg Mikheyev.
