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Domestic motor fuel prices have become a real headache for the Kazakh authorities. And all because in neighboring countries it is much more expensive. Portal “AvtoVzglyad” found out
For once, it is not Russia that “sponsors” residents of neighboring countries with its cheap motor fuel, but the other way around: the Russians have adapted to “suck” “free” fuel from their neighbors’ gas stations. The first to “cut through the subject” were truck drivers transporting goods to Kazakhstan. Now diesel fuel prices in Russia are 45% higher than in Kazakhstan. It is even more profitable for Kyrgyz people to refuel on the territory of Kazakhstan, since for them the same difference is 64%. And in Uzbekistan, fuel price tags are already twice as high as those of the Kazakhs.
It is almost one and a half times cheaper to fill a truck with Russian “wise men” than at home, in Kazakhstan they are used to it. A ton of diesel, contained in the almost empty tanks of a tractor, is not much on a national scale. But if the number of such tractors reaches hundreds and thousands, then this is already serious. The consequence of low prices at gas stations was a real fuel shortage in the border regions of Kazakhstan. Drivers from neighboring republics literally dried up the contents of storage facilities at border gas stations, not only filling the fuel tanks of cars, but also filling their cars with jerry cans of cheap fuel.
Following in the footsteps of truck drivers and personal vehicle owners, wholesalers of petroleum products soon followed with a more systematic and large-scale devastation of the Kazakh petroleum products market.
At the end of last year, local authorities effectively banned the export of petrol, diesel fuel and even kerosene from Kazakhstan by road. Only fuel in the tank – please go. Do you have a jerry can “in reserve” with you? Sorry but no!
And recently, the Kazakhs frantically decided “to introduce a ban on the export of certain types of oil products from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan outside the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) until December 31, 2024.” This restriction is unlikely to help the actual state of affairs in washing fuel away from the country’s market. Since, in addition to Kazakhstan itself, the EAEU also includes Russia and Kyrgyzstan, where Kazakh diesel and petrol will continue to flow.
After all, the fundamental reasons for the current state of affairs have not disappeared. One of the most common is the VAT amount. Russian companies give 20% to the treasury, and Kazakh companies – 12%. The excise duty per ton of gasoline in Kazakhstan is now 38,134 tenge (about 6,800 rubles), and in Russia it is 14,345 rubles. For diesel fuel, this ratio is 35,726 tenge per ton (6,400 rubles) in Kazakhstan and almost 10,000 rubles in Russia.
So for Kazakh fuel (at least in the border regions of the country) the shortage is an incurable matter. At least, until taxes and duties are higher in Russia.
For once, it is not Russia that “sponsors” residents of neighboring countries with its cheap motor fuel, but the other way around: the Russians have adapted to “suck” “free” fuel from their neighbors’ gas stations. The first to “cut through the subject” were truck drivers transporting goods to Kazakhstan. Now diesel fuel prices in Russia are 45% higher than in Kazakhstan. It is even more profitable for Kyrgyz people to refuel on the territory of Kazakhstan, since for them the same difference is 64%. And in Uzbekistan, fuel price tags are already twice as high as those of the Kazakhs.
It is almost one and a half times cheaper to fill a truck with Russian “wise men” than at home, in Kazakhstan they are used to it. A ton of diesel, contained in the almost empty tanks of a tractor, is not much on a national scale. But if the number of such tractors reaches hundreds and thousands, then this is already serious. The consequence of low prices at gas stations was a real fuel shortage in the border regions of Kazakhstan. Drivers from neighboring republics literally dried up the contents of storage facilities at border gas stations, not only filling the fuel tanks of cars, but also filling their cars with jerry cans of cheap fuel.
Following in the footsteps of truck drivers and personal vehicle owners, wholesalers of petroleum products soon followed with a more systematic and large-scale devastation of the Kazakh petroleum products market.
At the end of last year, local authorities effectively banned the export of petrol, diesel fuel and even kerosene from Kazakhstan by road. Only fuel in the tank – please go. Do you have a jerry can “in reserve” with you? Sorry but no!
And recently, the Kazakhs frantically decided “to introduce a ban on the export of certain types of oil products from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan outside the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) until December 31, 2024.” This restriction is unlikely to help the actual state of affairs in washing fuel away from the country’s market. Since, in addition to Kazakhstan itself, the EAEU also includes Russia and Kyrgyzstan, where Kazakh diesel and petrol will continue to flow.
After all, the fundamental reasons for the current state of affairs have not disappeared. One of the most common is the VAT amount. Russian companies give 20% to the treasury, and Kazakh companies – 12%. The excise duty per ton of gasoline in Kazakhstan is now 38,134 tenge (about 6,800 rubles), and in Russia it is 14,345 rubles. For diesel fuel, this ratio is 35,726 tenge per ton (6,400 rubles) in Kazakhstan and almost 10,000 rubles in Russia.
So for Kazakh fuel (at least in the border regions of the country) the shortage is an incurable matter. At least, until taxes and duties are higher in Russia.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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