What is known about the infrastructure payment

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In May 2023, it became known that Russian Post had submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Digital Development to collect an infrastructure payment from electronic trading platforms with an annual revenue of more than 1 billion rubles. The marketplaces themselves opposed this initiative. According to the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT), the proposal to finance Russian Post through an infrastructure payment from marketplaces is "in fact, the seizure of working capital" from businesses.

At the end of September, cameroon whatsapp number database Valentina Matviyenko announced a "financial hole" in Russian Post. According to her, if the government puts the issue "on the back burner", "the financial hole will turn into a huge hole into which everything will fall." According to the results of 2022, Russian Post's total loss amounted to 30.4 billion rubles instead of a profit of 2.34 billion rubles in 2021.

In October, it became known that the board of directors of Russian Post had decided to conduct an independent audit of the company's expenses following a discussion of a plan to improve its financial and economic condition. In addition to the infrastructure payment, Russian Post outlined the following support measures: additional capitalization of the company by approximately 117 billion rubles; debt refinancing (at the end of 2022, it amounted to 153.5 billion rubles) using funds from the National Welfare Fund at 3.5%; easing of regulatory conditions, etc.

However, in November, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin did not support the introduction of an infrastructure fee from marketplaces.

A representative of the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AITC) called it "strange" that, despite numerous discussions, negative feedback from both the government and business, economic analysis and proven negative consequences of implementing the proposal for both domestic entrepreneurs and citizens of the country, the initiative "remained alive" and materialized in the form of a full-fledged bill.

Representatives of Wildberries, Ozon and Yandex Market declined to comment.

A representative of Russian Post only reported that back in December, the head of the company, Mikhail Volkov, said that the issue of infrastructure payment had been removed from the agenda.