As he explained to RIA Novosti, the Russian government considers the reasoning of the Minister of Finance of Belarus Maxim Ermolovich strange on this issue.
“A strange argument by the Minister of Finance of Belarus. It is impossible to lose that which does not belong to you. The so-called loss of the budget of Belarus due to changes in Russian legislation (tax maneuver - RT ) does not apply to Russia's existing obligations to the republic, including financial ones, ”he said.
Ermolovich said earlier that Belarus would lose about $ 800 million in two years as a result of Russia's tax maneuver.
In September, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced that Minsk and Moscow would soon return to the issue of cost recovery for the Belarusian side in connection with the implementation of the oil tax maneuver in Russia.
In June, the deputy chairman of the Belneftekhim concern, Svetlana Gurina, said that the economy of Belarus for the five months of 2019 had lost about $ 130 million from the Russian tax maneuver in the oil sector.