{"id":45341,"date":"2023-01-16T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/finance-minister-says-belarus-should-be-free-to-set-social-taxes-despite-tax-harmonization-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"finance-minister-says-belarus-should-be-free-to-set-social-taxes-despite-tax-harmonization-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45341\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance minister says Belarus should be free to set social taxes despite tax harmonization with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>January 16, <span>BPN<\/span>.<\/b> Belarus may not be able to maintain the current level of pensions in case of the full unification of Belarusian and Russian tax legislation, Finance Minister Juryj Sieliviersta\u016d told <span>Belarus 1 <\/span>in an interview broadcast&nbsp;on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;We have to see what we need this unification for and what it will bring,&#8221; he said, adding that the Union State&#8217;s programs only mentioned it briefly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t As the number of pensioners kept growing, Belarus has gradually raised the retirement age and charged higher social security tax than Russia, Sieliviersta\u016d noted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;Now the question arises: if these things are unified, will they raise their deductions to the Social Security Fund [Pension Fund in Russia]?&#8221; he wondered. &#8220;That&#8217;s up to them. But we are certainly not going to lower ours, because it will reduce the Fund&#8217;s revenue and its ability to maintain the [current] level of pensions, which is necessary for the citizens,&#8221; the minister said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On January 12, Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka said that the establishment of a supranational tax committee with Russia would not strain Belarus\u2019 sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 16, BPN. Belarus may not be able to maintain the current level of pensions in case of the full unification of Belarusian and Russian tax legislation, Finance Minister Juryj Sieliviersta\u016d told Belarus 1 in an interview broadcast&nbsp;on Sunday. &#8220;We have to see what we need this unification for and what it will bring,&#8221; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-45341","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Finance minister says Belarus should be free to set social taxes despite tax harmonization with Russia | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 16, BPN. 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