Meeting with leader of New People party Alexei Nechayev

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Nechayev, what is your party working on in the parliament?

Alexei Nechayev Nechayev AlexeiHead of the New People party faction in the State Duma : We are currently working on adopting the budget. Of course, this budget is complex, but it is important that this is a victory budget, both in military and technological terms. This is the main thing. Our party supported the budget in the first reading, but I am concerned that it is a deficit budget.

Vladimir Putin: But the deficit is small.

Alexei Nechayev: That is true. However, we got used to having a budget surplus for many years, and we want to maintain a reserve so that there is always something available.

I told this to our faction and came to discuss potential ideas with you on how to fill the budget.

Vladimir Putin: Go on, please.

In fact, I expect that there will be more revenue, which will reduce the deficit.

Alexei Nechayev: Let us hope so, but we all need to work to make it smaller.

Vladimir Putin: I would like to hear your opinion because you work directly with entrepreneurs and understand this environment.

Please.

Alexei Nechayev: Eighteen months ago, we discussed smart protectionism. I remember that you supported this idea. Thanks to the duties introduced for unfriendly countries - which existed before, but were small, at just six percent - ​​we have raised them to 35 percent for a whole range of goods, specifically for these imported items. Together, we discussed whether prices would go up. We can see now that the answer is no: prices did not go up as a result of this.

This has already generated 27 billion rubles for the budget in several product categories. The Government has set a plan for next year: to collect over 50 billion. I propose further expanding the list of countries, because we are currently targeting only a select few. Alternatively, we could consider introducing these increased duties for all Western countries, the collective West. I wanted to bring this to your attention today as well.

What can be concluded from the budget? We need to collect money not from our people, but from others. This is the most appropriate approach.

Vladimir Putin: But in a way that does not harm our people.

Alexei Nechayev: Yes, that is our common task.

It is clear that there will be 100 billion rubles and more. I think you are right: if we improve our efforts, there will be even more. That's the first point.

To be continued.

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