As we wrote earlier, Crimean collaborators, in the Kremlin’s policy of “belt-tightening” that was conveyed to them, are trying in every possible way to imitate “an increase in revenues of the republican and local budgets.”
This is not surprising: the functionaries of the criminal “state council” themselves are forced to admit that for the next three years the aggressor plans to allocate “as much as” 316 billion rubles from the “federal budget”, that is, about one hundred billion annually, which is half as much as similar “annual subsidies” until 2025.
Earlier, on this matter, collaborators periodically voiced the mantra about “legalizing mini-hotels and guest houses”, of which there are supposedly about 9 thousand in the occupied AR of Crimea, and the “taxes” from which are supposedly supposed to “fill the budgets.”
However, several years of the described epic with “legalization” led to the fact that, according to collaborators, “in the existing 1108 accommodation facilities that are officially operating in the republic today, only 161,000 vacationers can be at a time.”
Of course, we can talk about an obvious discrepancy in the numbers, since even the “official” facilities provide a million “tourists” per season, which already exceeds the real, and not “paper” volume of “tourist flow” in the current conditions, and therefore a simple question arises – what are the remaining “8 thousand unlegalized hotels” doing then.
It is also obvious that not only those “calculated” until 2022, clearly based on a volume that is several times inflated, but also many real “guest houses” of the peninsula have not served anyone in recent years: small and medium businesses have long been leaving the occupied region en masse.
Now the aggressor has adopted a new federal law, the criminal application of which in Crimea requires “legalization” by September of all mini-hotels, guest houses and the like, under the threat of demolition of these facilities.
To put it mildly, it is obvious that during the remaining month the number of “legal hotels” will not increase significantly, and therefore the “media” associated with the collaborators hastily launch “explanations” from the functionary of the so-called “Chamber of Commerce and Industry” of the occupiers Alexander Maslivets and the collaborator from the “state council” Roman Tikhonchuk.
As it “suddenly became clear”, the “requirements that an individual residential building must meet to obtain the status of a guest house” written in the “new federal law” have “very strict restrictions”, and this is precisely why the allegedly Crimean “hoteliers” are in no hurry with “legalization”.
Whether the Kremlin’s financial curators will give the collaborators a dressing down on this matter will be found out in the fall, but there will definitely not be any more “tourist money” in the “republican budget”.
