UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2017. According to Sverdlovsk Region’s Finance Ministry’s forecast, the large-scale local enterprises are expected to pay 7.8% (4.5bn RUR) more taxes this year than in 2016, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The additional tax influx is expected to come from increased corporate tax, property tax, and income tax payments. Now Governor Evgeniy Kuivashev recently called for exploring the constituency’s revenue potential and for dealing with taxpayers on a case-by-case basis. ‘The Finance Ministry coordinated a number of meetings

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 25, 2017. Metallurg Magnitogorsk Charity Foundation will receive 159.9m RUR from its primary benefactor Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in the third quarter of the year, MMK’s Information & PR Administration reports. The money will mostly get spent on organization of festive events, namely, Metallurgist’s Day and Town Day. 5,660 long-service employees from local industrial enterprises, people working in the city’s civil service sector, and public sector workers from the nearby Agapovsky and Kizilsky Districts are expected to attend. A show will take

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s private individuals’ deposit book increased by 3% in the first half of 2017 and thus amounted to 157bn RUR on July 1, the bank’s press service reports. The national private deposits market rose by 2.9% on the whole. According to the bank’s Debit Transactions Director Olga Aksenova, the banking market’s deposit volumes are growing more slowly this year than last year, since the interest rates the banks offer have gone down and so have people’s disposable incomes. ‘This is the third year in a row that

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2017. The average asking price of used cars came to 499,000 RUR in Yekaterinburg in the first half of 2017, which is 10% less than one year earlier, avto.ru reports. ‘As for other parts of Russia, prices are at their highest in Moscow and Moscow Region and at their lowest in Chelyabinsk Region (819,000 RUR and 450,000 RUR, respectively), the website states. In Yekaterinburg, customers mostly look for sales ads on Lada, Toyota, and Nissan. In the country on the whole, the three best selling brands are Lada, Toyota, and Volkswagen. The used cars on Yekaterinburg

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) had 1,805 samples of fruit and vegetable produce tested in the second quarter of the year. 2.5% of samples failed to meet the existing sanitary and epidemiological standards (the share of faulty imported items came to 2.2% of the total amount tested), the division’s press service reports. 2,019 samples got tested for microbiological parameters as well, and 5.4% of them turned out faulty. The division intends to keep an eye on the situation.