Owners of trucks with a maximum authorized weight exceeding 12 tons are required to pay a fee as compensation for the damage their vehicles cause to the roads. common use. The Plato system was developed based on the “user pays” principle, according to which those who cause the greatest damage as a result of their business activities should pay for the destruction of public roads.

Protests for the abolition of Plato began immediately after the introduction of the system - in November 2015. Owners Vehicle demanded the abolition of Plato for trucks. Car owners protested against fines, tariffs and the injustice (according to the strikers) of the introduction of an “additional tax” - after all, they already pay transport tax.

Due to mass strikes aimed at canceling Platon, and due to the unwillingness of truck owners to work according to new principles (many owners of multi-ton trucks did not have time to register and receive on-board devices), it was decided to postpone the imposition of fines for violations for six months, until May 1 2016. The amount of fines was also changed: initially it was planned that fines would be levied on all persons involved in the cargo transportation process, and the amount of the fine for the first violation would be up to 450 thousand rubles (for legal entities), and for a repeated violation up to 1 million rubles. The fines have been significantly reduced. For owners of heavy trucks, as well as for drivers of vehicles owned by foreign carriers, the same fines are now provided: for the first violation, the fine is 5,000 rubles, for a repeated violation - 10,000 rubles.

In addition to the reduction in fines, the change in tariffs of the Platon system was also good news for owners of heavy trucks. Before the launch of the system, a government decree established a temporary reduction in tariffs by 59% from what was previously envisaged - 3.73 rubles for each kilometer traveled by a vehicle on public roads. The minimum tariff was 1.5293 rubles/km. For the period from March 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018, a gradual doubling of indexation was planned, up to a payment of 3.06 rubles for each kilometer traveled, however, this indexation was postponed until 2017.

At the same time, protests and disputes around the Platon system do not subside and even lead to positive changes for heavy truck owners. Many owners of multi-ton trucks are closely monitoring the changes taking place, as reported by Plato news today. At the same time, it is clear that one cannot hope for the cancellation of “Plato”. In the near future, one can only expect increased attention from the authorities to the system, as well as an increase in both the fee itself and fines for free use expensive.

On April 26, 2016, Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated April 15, 2016 No. 310 came into force, according to which users of the Platon system received the right to deferred payment. Payment of the fee may be delayed by one calendar month, but subject to certain conditions being met: the car and the owners are registered in Russia, an on-board device is installed in the car, the owner has no existing fines for non-payment, and there has been no payment arrears for six months before.

In addition, on July 3, 2016, amendments were made to Article 28 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, according to which owners of heavy trucks can reduce the transport tax accrued on each multi-ton truck registered in the Platon system by the fee paid to compensate for damage caused by vehicles highways. This procedure was introduced on January 1, 2016 and will be valid until December 31, 2018 inclusive. This, by the way, is one of the few transport tax benefits for legal entities today.

Whether “Plato” will be canceled or not, the question is rather rhetorical. According to latest news, there is no need to talk about the cancellation of Plato, despite active protests from vehicle owners. In December 2016, the results of the system’s operation were published on the official Platon website, according to which, despite widespread dissatisfaction, 87% of Russian carriers’ vehicles are already equipped with on-board devices (581 thousand on-board devices have been issued). During the work of Platon, 22.9 billion rubles were allocated for the repair of regional roads, and cash for the construction and reconstruction of 31 bridges in 19 regions of the country.

On December 5, at noon, Smolensk truckers at a rally sanctioned by the authorities near the Sovremennik cinema will collect signatures for the abolition of the Platon system - “payment per ton”.

They believe that “the introduction of tolls for trucks to travel on federal highways is a problem not only for truckers.” “Are you sure that the roads will get better after everyone obediently donates money to a company that is half private? - the truck drivers ask and immediately answer: - But this is exactly what happens when for every kilometer traveled you will have to pay into the pocket of the oligarch’s son. Do you think this won't affect you? Do you think that the cost of products in stores is so low that their increase due to rising transportation costs will be unnoticeable? But the increase in already high prices could be up to 20 percent.”

Let us remind you that “Platon” is a system that tracks the path of a trucker and charges him a fee at a set rate. Travel costs federal roads is 1.53 rubles per 1 km, from March 1, 2016 - 3.06 rubles. However, what worries drivers most is probably not the fee itself, but the system of fines. The work of “Plato” is regulated by Art. 12.21 of the Administrative Code, and for violating its requirements the driver will face a financial loss of 5 thousand rubles, executive And individual entrepreneur- 40 thousand rubles, legal entity - 450 thousand.

Protest rallies have already taken place in Krasnoyarsk, Tolyatti, Yaroslavl, Orel, Bryansk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow...

“The situation with tachographs, which, by the way, cost 50 thousand rubles per truck, had just been “settled”, and then there was a new misfortune - “Platon”. But if we were prepared in advance for the need to purchase a control device to record the speed of the car, the driver’s work and rest schedule, including the traffic police officers, then the next fees, thanks to the November innovation called “Plato”, became like snow for many on his head,” complains the Roslavl truck driver. - And where to get the money for all this? If three years ago a truck driver was paid 95-100 thousand rubles for transporting goods along the Smolensk - Yekaterinburg route, today it’s good if you find an order for 70 thousand. Meanwhile, diesel fuel has risen in price from 27 to 35 rubles per liter. Replacing one broken wheel today is estimated at 20 thousand, oil - 25 thousand... Everything has become more expensive, and prices for spare parts are generally astronomical. Drivers are also dissatisfied with a lot of technical problems. I tried to register in the Platon system, but, alas, everything hangs there... And it’s unclear whether yours passed advance payment or not, you should wait for a possible fine or this time it will pass. Therefore, many truckers are not working now - they are in a state of “forced strike.” Because traveling on federal highways can become more expensive. Carriers have lined up to receive special transmitters that track the movement of trucks, but so far only the lucky ones have been able to get them. I only know two. So far there are problems with everything - both with route maps and with payment for a certain “Plato” and often quite strange route... If this system had first been tested in test mode for a couple of years and then introduced, then there would be much less dissatisfied.”

“I suggest you do a little math,” Sergey, another Smolensk truck driver with five years of experience, continues the topic. - Let’s say there are 1 million trucks in Russia, and by the way, there are much more of them, and each of them covers an average of about 100 thousand km on the roads of our vast country per year. We multiply a million by 100 thousand and by the current tariff of 1.53 rubles. per km - it turns out to be a tidy sum of 153 billion rubles. 40 of them, as officially stated, will be spent on repairing old roads and building new ones, another 10 billion will be spent on maintaining the Platon system, and where will the rest go? In whose pockets? And when, from March 2016, we will be forced to pay twice as much for each kilometer, then we will be talking about a more substantial amount - more than 300 billion rubles. And they want to leave our brother-driver, excuse me, without trousers at all... If you count how much a truck driver now receives for his hard work, then many won’t even have 30 thousand “clean”, minus repairs, spare parts and liquid. According to our calculations, in the Smolensk region about 3 thousand people are engaged in long-distance cargo transportation, and I think that all of them will support our resolution for the abolition of Plato.

Igor Sergeevich, who has been going to long-distance training for the third five-year period, summarizes: “If this continues, then soon they will install air meters for us - for every inhalation and exhalation, but we, excuse me, are not vegetables to pay some senior Pomodoro, we will fight to the bitter end! Today we are already forced to deliver goods at ridiculous prices just to pay for the diesel!”

In a word, Russian truckers are determined. True, opinions here are divided. Some, like the Smolensk residents, intend to fight only for the abolition of the Plato system. Others, the most radical ones, also insist on punishing its initiators - up to the imposition of billions of dollars in fines on the oligarchs, and also on initiating criminal proceedings against each of them on suspicion of participation in corruption schemes. Still others vote for the abolition of weight controls for heavy trucks, transport taxes, and rising prices for gasoline, diesel fuel and spare parts. And if these demands are not met, they promise to block not only federal highways, but also Moscow, leaving the metropolis without food. But, as they say, we'll wait and see. The Ministry of Transport has already stated that the abolition of the Platon system at this moment impossible.

Information about road infrastructure projects that received money from the Platon toll system for heavy trucks will be available in a special section of the system’s website. The head of the Ministry of Transport, Maxim Sokolov, announced this on the Rossiya 24 TV channel following a meeting with carriers in St. Petersburg.

“Ensuring transparency of subsequent expenses is something we also talked about. Will be created special section on the website, where there will be information about what funds collected through the Platon system are allocated to which specific projects,” he said.

As the minister notes, abolition of the system is currently impossible. “The Government of the Russian Federation and State Duma deputies have already taken the necessary compromise steps: we have reduced the corresponding taxes,” Sokolov said.

At the same time, the head of the Ministry of Transport, during a meeting with carriers in St. Petersburg, invited them to take part in the selection of road infrastructure projects to which the money collected by the Platon system will be directed.

The Platon system was launched on November 15 to collect fees to compensate for damage caused to roads by vehicles with a maximum permitted weight of over 12 tons. Based on the results of two weeks of work state system 550 million rubles were collected for the Federal Road Fund. It is planned that in 2016 the collection of payments will bring 40 billion rubles to the Federal Road Fund. This money will be spent on repairing federal highways. To date, more than 600 thousand vehicles are registered in the toll collection system, which is 60% of the total fleet. Large companies with a fleet of 50 vehicles or more are 90% registered.

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According to the Ministry of Economic Development, the introduction of “Plato’s quitrent for drivers” will fuel inflation in the country by at least 4 percent, and everything that is produced or consumed in Russia will rise in price, according to various estimates, by 10 to 30 percent.

Owners of multi-ton trucks are required to make payments to state budget for travel on federal highways. This innovation appeared at the end of 2015. Disputes and dissatisfaction on the part of truckers have given rise to many discussions. Even now people often wonder whether Plato was canceled or not.

Plato is a specialized system for collecting fees from freight vehicles whose permissible weight is more than 12 tons for driving on federal roads. Toll highways do not fall into this category.

When driving on such roads, the duration of the route and the cost of payment to the state budget are calculated. You can make the calculation in several ways:

• compiling route maps;
• automatically using specialized on-board devices.

Although the toll bill was introduced in November 2015, it became effective somewhat later for those traveling outside the Moscow region. The abolition of Plato is not considered by the Government as a way to resolve the unrest that has arisen on the part of truckers.

About the picket of truckers and further innovations

After the press received information about the introduction of tolls for the passage of multi-ton trucks on federal roads, many truckers went out to protest. The rally took place on November 19, 2015 throughout Russia.

The main argument of the dissatisfied truckers was that the country was not ready to introduce such a system technically and psychologically. The practice of collecting tolls came to Russia from European countries, whose level of development is much higher.

After such a negative response from cargo carriers, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation made some adjustments. Already in mid-November, it was decided to postpone until May 1, 2016 the imposition of fines for violation of obligations to compensate for damage caused by heavy trucks to federal roads.

Immediately after the appearance of the law on the Plato system, a bill was prepared providing for the abolition of fees for 3 years. The authors were representatives of the auto business, whom
won by the LDPR party.

The dissenters also cited reasons for such a measure: instability and economic crisis already seriously worsened the situation of all business representatives, including cargo carriers.

The moratorium bill was not adopted, but some changes were made to make life easier for truckers. The abolition of Plato today is practically impossible, because a huge amount of federal budget funds was spent on the implementation of the program.

On changing the amount of fines and tariffs

After the implementation of the Platon system, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation received many messages from cargo carriers about their unwillingness to work according to the new principles. Most companies simply did not have time to go through the procedure of registration and installation of on-board devices. That is why it was decided to postpone the imposition of fines until May 1, 2016.

The amounts of fines levied on defaulters were also changed. It was initially planned that for the first violation the car owner would have to pay 450 thousand rubles, and for repeated violations - 1 million rubles.

The amount of fines was officially reduced, which is enshrined in the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. A primary violation is punishable by an obligation to pay 5 thousand rubles to the state treasury. A repeated incident implies an increase in the fine to 10 thousand rubles.

Amendments were also made regarding payment tariffs. Until February 29, 2016, the fee was 1.53 rubles for each kilometer on the federal highway. Such tariffs were valid only in the Moscow region.

Starting from March 1, 2016 until December 31, 2018, the tariff was supposed to be increased to 3.06 rubles per kilometer, but this indexation was postponed until 2017.

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Truck drivers protesting against the Platon toll system on federal roads today announced a strike throughout Russia. This was reported by the press secretary of truckers camped in Khimki near Moscow, Taisiya Nikitenko.

According to the activist, a strike of heavy truck drivers will take place from February 20 to March 1. Participants in the protest, which involves truckers from 43 regions, are calling not to take orders and not go on flights, Nikitenko noted.

“The goal of truckers is the abolition of Platon, the introduction of a moratorium on increasing housing and communal services tariffs for two years, the return discounted travel for pensioners and the disabled, abolition of fees for major repairs,” she said in an interview with the radio station “Moscow Speaks”.

Representative of the Khimki truckers camp Andrey Bazhutin reported to the Dozhd TV channel that “transport will stop as much as possible in the regions - cars will be parked near the road, at shopping centers and in other places.” According to him, today drivers from the regions will come to Khimki to support their colleagues. "They will be on passenger cars- it’s easier to get there. In addition, many are no longer working and they simply do not have money for fuel. I think this evening we will be able to assess the scale of the action.” He added that past campaigns were not always effective due to a lack of coordination between drivers. However, now the truckers are planning to unite.

In turn, a member of the coordination council of cargo carriers of the Yaroslavl region Sergey Sadikov confirmed participation in the strike in Khimki and his region. “Drivers of heavy trucks from the Yaroslavl region return from flights and remain in their home parking lots. It’s too early to say exactly how many people will take part,” Interfax quotes the activist.

Let us add that tonight a truckers’ camp appeared in St. Petersburg. According to various sources, from 8 to more than 10 trucks parked in the parking lot in front of the Mega Dybenko hypermarket. Truck drivers demand the abolition of the Platon system and also oppose increasing excise taxes on fuel, Ekho Moskvy reports. One of the protesters Mikhail Shipachev reported to Fontanka.ru that trucks from St. Petersburg and Veliky Novgorod are participating in the action. “We expect more machines to join us. The camp will remain until complete cancellation“Plato,” said Shipachev.

The day before, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovichreported, that a fundamental decision was made to cancel the increase in fees for heavy trucks from March 1 within the framework of the Platon system. Thus, the tariff will remain at the level of 1 ruble 53 kopecks. It was assumed that from March 1 of this year the tariff would be increased to 3 rubles 6 kopecks per kilometer. The official noted that based on the results of nine months of this year, the situation will be monitored and a decision will be made in October on when to increase the fee.

Previously, the Russian government opposed the idea of ​​State Duma deputies to abolish the transport tax. If this is done, the regions will lose 146 billion rubles, and there is nowhere to compensate them. Officials also abandoned the idea of ​​abolishing the transport tax only for truck owners: instead, they offered cargo carriers tax deduction, equivalent to paid travel on federal highways.

Let us recall that since November 15 last year, a system of charging trucks with a maximum permissible weight of 12 tons to compensate for damage when driving on federal highways, called “Plato,” began operating in Russia. The introduction of "Plato" caused massive discontent among truckers. Protests took place in many regions of Russia.

The operator of Platon is the parity joint venture between Rostec and RT-Invest, RT-Invest Transport Systems, created in 2014. It implements the agreement with Rosavtodor. A party to the agreement is the son of Arkady Rotenberg, businessman Igor Rotenberg, under whose control the share of Rostec has passed. RT-Invest belongs to the structure of Andrey Shipelov. The concession agreement was signed for 13 years.

The authorities made concessions after the truckers' protests. In particular, amendments were adopted to significantly reduce fines for non-payment of the fee - up to 5 thousand rubles from the driver or, in the case of a violation recorded by surveillance cameras, from the owner of a heavy truck. For repeated violation, a fine of 10 thousand rubles is provided. If driving without payment is recorded by cameras several times a day, a fine will be charged only for the first violation. Previously, drivers of 12-ton vehicles were fined for failure to pay tolls: 450 thousand rubles for legal entities and 40 thousand rubles for individuals.

In January it became known that the Russian Ministry of Economic Development was going to offer the government postpone until autumn an increase in heavy vehicle tolls scheduled for March 1.

Moscow, Svetlana Petrova

Moscow. Other news 02/20/16

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