“We regularly meet with business representatives within the framework of the Strategic Council, offering enterprises various support measures, including those of a regulatory nature.
So, we turned to the federal government with a proposal to reduce or completely abolish VAT for the restaurant business, which will significantly reduce the burden on enterprises and help them overcome this difficult period, "RIA Novosti quotes the words of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations. Vladimir Efimov.
The deputy mayor noted that the Ministry of Economic Development supported this proposal.
Efimov added that in connection with the coronavirus and current restrictions, the restaurant business is going through a difficult period.
Earlier it was reported that pensioners and the poor were offered to exempt from VAT on food.