The issue that may be related to SRC, we solved it last year, in a conversation with journalists, referring to the complaint of businessmen regarding purchases from Wildberries, SRC President Rustam Badasyan said.
He mentioned that last year the SRC came up with a legislative initiative, according to which the rule of the country of consumption, not the rule of the country of residence, applies to e-commerce in the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union. “What does this mean? It means that before this year, Wildberries did not pay VAT when importing goods, but starting from this year, the impact on competition, which could have been in the form of non-payment of taxes, is from last year Moreover, we have made sure that the company does not have any advantage in any respect and we have been conducting analytical work since the beginning of the year and we had a recovery of 3.2 billion very recently.”
Badasyan added that there are certain mechanisms for determining the customs values of goods. “They present their relevant documents and customs clearance is done based on them.”
Badasyan was surprised at the journalist’s observation that businessmen complain that the SRC is suffocating SMEs. “What does stifling SMEs look like?”