eTaxes – not on your life!

The Federal Tax Service has decided that taxpayers will find it more convenient to submit accounts and declarations in electronic form. This facility has been around since 2002, but only a quarter of Moscow’ businessmen decided to switch over, with the figure even lower in the regions. In the words of one businessman interviewed by the "Business" newspaper, the system is "ugly". Earlier this year there was an alcohol crisis because of a similar system, the Unified State Automated Information System to account for the volume of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic products and products with a spirit content (EGAIS), which worked so badly that its operations were temporarily halted.