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T.A.Ivanovich: State-legal regulation in Russia. How can it be evaluated?

best, but it turned out as always!” Recent example - a hasty and unprepared decision of increasing the

rate of social tax from 17 thousand rubles till 35.6 thousand rubles, was prompted more than 350
million individual entrepreneurs to close their businesses for three months of this year [Ivanov M.

2013 p.1]. Analysts have estimated that the total average tax rate on business in Russia is more than
54.1 %. In the EU it is equal to 42.6 % and in the world economy as a whole - 44.7 %. What can I

add? It is not so “sweet” for business in the Russian Federation, however!
One of the main ethics of officials and representatives of the science involved in preparing or

approving SLR, should be comprehensive understanding of the situation in the country and reliance

on public opinion in the determination and evaluation of the final result of regulatory impact.
Traditionally, it is believed that government regulation is more effective and more sensitive by

society, that it meets in more times national and international requirements and standards. First, and

most importantly - SLR is inherently designed to conform to the Constitution and to develop the
constitutional guarantees for specific (internal and external ) conditions of social-economic, and

social development. Any deviation, and the more contradiction of Constitutional foundations of
society, should be regarded as attempt at constitutional stability and recognition of the “void” SLR,

or the need to revise the Constitutional norm. Unfortunately, the evaluation of SLR in terms of their
compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation is in sphere of the Constitutional Court of

the Russian Federation on the applications of individual and judicial persons, or on its own

initiative, that it happens very rarely.
Second, it is designed to facilitate the needs of sustainable socio-economic development

without limits of legitimate interests of the individual layers of the population. This requirement
can be achieved, provided that the development of SLR is handled by professionals of high

level, who deeply and comprehensively know current level of the economy, represent the
possible options for its renovation and is keenly aware of the consequences of the actions of state

regulators in space (for the regions and municipalities, the median and the outlying areas) and

time (present and future).
Third, the SLR are designed to concentrate a positive experience of other countries, the

results of scientific research in this field and build on the positive public opinion. The prolonged

neglect of the Russian leadership of the requirements of a permanent, non-systematic and
therefore often dropping result of reforms of the education system, health care, pensions,

domestic science and other areas of the budget is nothing other than “anger” and regrets about

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