Рыночная экономика
depends in a decisive degree on a choice of tax system, and also from kinds
and sizes of tax privileges.
The taxes in state regulation of economy play a double role: on the one
hand, it is the main source of financing of the state charges, the material
basis of budget politics, on the other hand, is the tool of regulation. A
task of state budget bodies - not simply to impose with the taxes those or
other sources of receipt of means and to create the adjusted mechanism of
influence on economic behaviour of the legal and physical persons is thin.
For this purpose temporarily or selectively given tax discounts, delay of
payment of the taxes are used.
The special place among means of state regulation of economy which is
carried out through the taxes, plays accelerated amortisation of a fixed
capital and connected with it(him) formation(education) and realisation of
the latent reserves carried out within the framework of the sanctions of
the ministries of the finance.
Accelerated amortisation of a fixed capital in modern conditions is by
the main means of stimulation of accumulation, structural changes in
economy and important tool of influence on an economic cycle - the
employment. Essence it in a separation of physical process amortisation of
machines, equipment, buildings and structures from the production costs of
carry of cost of material carriers of a fixed capital on the made goods and
services. Changing the rates and order amortisation, the state regulating
bodies determine that part of the clean profit, which can be released from
the taxes by inclusion in production costs and then is listed in
amortisation fund for financing in the further new capital investments.
At check of correctness of payment of the tax from the profit the tax
inspectors agree with accounting of production costs or services only if
the amortisation deductions were made in conformity with norms solved by
the ministry of the finance. The size of the balance profit, rate and size
of the tax, and also paid dividends depends on it.
The variation of norms accelerated amortisation of a fixed capital is
widely used in all advanced countries as a means of state tactical and
structural politics, and also for stimulation of scientific researches and
introduction of their results, for financing nature protection of measures.
The effect of a variation of norms of amortisation deductions is swept up
within a favourable conjuncture, i.e. in the periods of slowing and crises
the effectiveness of amortisation politics weakens. The worse conjuncture,
the more difficult & is to realise profit, it is less than opportunities
for self-financing, and the amortisation privileges given by the state,
becomes less attractive stimulus for the private investments. The
privileges on accelerated amortisation are equivalent to reduction of
receipts from the taxes from profits in the state budget. Result can be
increase of other taxes or growth state duty.
The state capital investments are carried out substantially in public
sector of economy playing a major role in state regulation of economy. It
is simultaneously object and tool of influence on a private enterprise.
The public sector represents a complex of economic objects, wholly or
partially belonging to the central and local state bodies. The public
sector existed in many countries long before development of capitalism,
including mail, partially transport service, manufacturing of the weapon
etc. On a measure forming systems of state regulation of economy the state
built, redeemed at the private proprietors economic objects, mainly in
sphere of an infrastructure, heavy industry, which functioning was always
favourably and it is necessary for a national economy, but not always it is
favourable from the point of view of the private capital.
In one country the public sector has arisen basically as a result of
nationalisation of a number of branches and enterprises (in France, Italy,
Great Britain, Austria), in others the state built or got ruined economic
objects (in USA, Sweden, Japan). In the first group of the countries the
share of public sector in national riches is higher, than in second.
Significant parts of public sector are objects of an infrastructure, in
the majority unprofitable. Other part - the state enterprises in raw and
power branches, where are required the large investments, and turnover of
the capital slow. Profitability of state-owned firms, as a rule, below,
than private. A part of public sector is packages of the actions of the
mixed private-state companies.
The existence in conditions of a market economy of sectors, which in
the activity is guided by principles a little bit distinguished from
principles of private concerns, allows using public sector for the decision
of nation-wide economic tasks, increasing money of a private enterprise.
The exclusive profit, and frequently and profit in general, is not the
paramount purpose of activity of public sector in an infrastructure, power,
raw branches, НИОКР, in preparation and retraining of the staff, in the
field of protection of an environment, as high profits nobody requires of
these spheres, and the losses become covered from the budget. Therefore
public sector has become the supplier of cheap services (in particular,
transport, mail-telegraphic), electric power and raw material, reducing,
thus, costs in private sector.
The public sector as a means of state regulation of economy is actively
used. So, in conditions of deterioration of a conjuncture, the depressions
or crisis, when the private capital investments are reduced, investment in
public sector, as a rule, grow. Thus, the governmental bodies aspire to
counteract recession of manufacture and growth of unemployment. The public
sector plays an appreciable role in state structural politics. The state
creates new objects or expands and reconstructs old in those spheres of
activity, branches or regions, where the private capital connected is not
enough. So, the public sector plays a huge role in economy, preparation and
retraining of the staff. The state-owned firms are engaged also in foreign
trade, export of the capital abroad, frequently acting by the pioneers in
introduction of the national capital in any country (for example,
participation of the German concern “ Volkswagen ”, federal taking place in
property federal and ground governments, in motor industry of Czech).
In the whole public sector serves addition of a private enterprise
there and such measure, where and as far as the motivation for the private
capital appears insufficient. In result the public sector serves to
increase of efficiency of a national economy as a whole and is one of tools
of redistribution of a total internal product (the complete internal
product is a cumulative cost of production of sphere of material
manufacture and spheres of services, irrespective of a national accessory
of the enterprises located in territory of the given country).
The sizes of public sector, its share in national economy, change not
only as a result of new construction and purchase, but also as a
consequence of a privatisation - sale profitable, reconstructed objects of
public sector to the private capital. In 80-th and 90-th years this
tendency appreciably has amplified.
Alongside with the listed tools of state regulation of economy having
internal economy the orientation, an arsenal of means of the external
economic regulation exists.
Practically all levers of influence on process of reproduction inside
the country render essential influence on foreign economic relations:
change of the registration rate, taxation new privileges and grants on the
investment in a fixed capital etc.
However there are also special tools of direct influence on economic
communications with abroad. It is, first of all, a measure of stimulation
of export of goods, services, capitals, scientific and technical and
administrative experience: crediting of export, warranting of the export
credits and investments abroad, introduction or cancellation of
quantitative restrictions, change of the duty in foreign trade; measures on
attraction or restriction of access of the foreign capital in a national
economy, change of conditions of its functioning, qualitative selection
(from the point of view of a branch orientation and technological level)
acting from abroad capital, attraction in the country of a foreign labour,
participation in the international economic organisations, integration
state associations.
The separate tools of state economic politics can be used in the
various purposes, in various combinations and with different intensity.
Depending on character of the purposes the place of that or other tool in
an arsenal of means of state regulation of economy in the concrete period
will vary.
The maximum form of state regulation of economy is the state economic
programming. Its task - complex use in the global purposes of all elements
of state regulation of economy.
In process of complication of tasks on regulation of economy of
government of steel to formulate short-term, intermediate term and long-
term tasks to determine the order of their decision and bodies responsible
for performance of these decisions, to allocate necessary means and to
determine the order of financing.
Objects of such target programs usually are the branches (in
particular, agriculture); regions; social sphere (for example, social
economic adaptation settlers, maintenance by their work and habitation);
various directions of scientific researches.
The programs are usual and extreme. The usual intermediate term
programs are made, as a rule, for five years with annual updating and
prolongation for one year (sliding programming). The extreme programs are
developed in critical situations, for example, in conditions of crisis,
mass unemployment dangerous inflation; they, as a rule, short-term. In
toolkits of their realisation the appreciable place is occupied with means
of administrative regulation.
The level of development of state programming in the separate countries
is various. Practically in all countries of market economy the target
programs are carried out. One of oldest - regional-power target program on
development of pool of the river Tennessee in USA, program of development
of nuclear power in France, economic development of the south of Italy.
The national extreme programs on restoration of economy of Southern
Korea after war, on structural reorganisation and privatisation of new
grounds (East Germany) after connection of GDR to Germany are known.
In a citadel of a market economy - USA - the national programming is
not present, but widely target and extreme programs are applied. Obviously,
the distinctions in a degree of development of programming in the separate
countries depend on character and scales of tasks, which economic and
social situation puts before the state.
The subjects of economic programming - official bodies responsible for
drawing up of the programs, their direct realisation and control above
them. The programs are developed by a special state body (for example,
Commissaries on planning in France), and if it is not present, by the
ministries of economy and finance or special ministry system. Thus the
ministry of economy, as a rule, prepares the project of the program,
formulates hierarchy of the purposes, terms and sequence of realisation of
separate measures, names instances which are bearing responsibility for
performance.
The ministry of the finance develops the plan of financing of the
program. The representatives of the central bank, unions of the
businessmen, commercial and industrial chambers, trade unions are widely
involved in development of the programs, the various commissions and advice
of the experts are created.
The program and financial plan are annually (in connection with a
sliding principle of prolongation) affirmed by parliament, also of time per
one year the reports on their performance are heard.
The state economic programming has appeared rather effective at the
decision of a number of economic and social tasks, however this efficiency
has objective borders. In conditions of market economy the programming can
be only indicative, that is to carry target-stimulating character.
Nevertheless, it has appeared a rather effective means of the decision of
tasks of a different level; if the state programs frequently also were not
realised completely, all of them - provided social economic development in
a desirable direction. That circumstance is not less important also, that
the programming allows systematically using all means of state regulation
of economy, to avoid discrepancy and inconsistency of regulating measures
of separate official bodies.
State financial stimulation, orders and the purchases within the
framework of the economic programs render appreciable and non-uniform
influence on competitiveness of the separate companies, situation of
branches, regions, of social groups and cause resistance what interests
have appeared restrained. On state programming systems therefore constantly
there is a versatile influence reflecting inconsistent interests of
separate groups, public forces, political groups.
Let's consider the mechanism of state regulation on an example of
politics of the prices.
Contrary to widespread at many to opinion, that in the countries of
market economy money appearing occurs spontaneously, actually prices are
object of constant attention and regulation on the part of the state. The
prices are one of critical points economic and social - political life,
where the group interests of the manufacturers and consumers, wholesale and
retail dealers, trade unions and unions of the businessmen, exporters and
importers collide. The prices mention interests everyone and, naturally,
around of them there is a struggle in parties and parliaments, in
government and on negotiation of the social partners, at the international
meetings.
The influence on the prices serves to the global purposes of state
regulation of economy, purposes of tactical and structural politics,
struggle with inflation, amplification of national competitiveness in the
world markets and mitigation of social intensity. The influence of state
economic politics on other objects of regulation, in turn, is reflected in
processes of formation of the prices.
The concrete actions in the field of the prices can have short-term or
even the emergency purposes, which can in the given concrete moment not
coincide with other purposes, but at the end they always serve of the
general purpose of state regulation - optimisation of rates both
proportions of economic development and stabilisation of social system
The classical political economy examined the prices, freely developing
in the market, as the main element of the mechanism of maintenance of
balance between a supply and demand. However actually there was never of
ideal general and complete freedom money appearing. All question in a
degree and forms of restriction of free game of the prices. Even if to
abstract from opportunities of arrangement of the manufacturers and
sellers, during all history of capitalism it is possible to look after
influence of the state on the prices.
The tariffs for services of state iron roads, mail, telegraph, sale of
the foodstuffs from state stocks per poor harvest years, customs politics
and indirect taxation essential image influencing on the internal price, -
here the not complete list of measures of state price control for last 100
- 150 years.
The first world war which has begun after it depression and crisis,
have served as the moment of changes in a history of state price control.
K. Muller wrote in this occasion, that the political and economic shocks in
the state and society have caused comprehension that in interests of the
best functioning of a economy, more uniform distribution and avoidance of
danger of revolutionary revolution it would be expedient, that the state
has undertaken care of regulation of economic process and maintenance of
the fair prices.
Attempts to adjust the prices in conditions of inflation and crisis by
the foreign trade politics have appeared insolvent. To the middle of the 30-
th years in many advanced countries with market economy the laws giving to
the state powers on influence on the prices, down to their freezing were
accepted, and the state measures on influence on the prices become a
component of state regulation of economy.
The state measures on price control can carry legislative,
administrative and judicial character. The laws, accepted by parliaments,
create a legal basis of the relations between the economic subjects, and
also between them and state in sphere money appearing. The complex of these
laws represents the price right entering by a component into civil law. On
the basis of this right the authorised state bodies carry out
administrative activity on price control. In case of infringement of the
laws guilty can be involved in the judicial responsibility.
Party fractions independent deputies bring in the administration bills
of the prices, as well as on other economic questions, to parliaments or
government, is direct measures on price control carry out the ministries of
economy, finance and central bank. In a number of the countries there are
ministries of trade, agriculture. They also render influence on money
appearing. In many countries at the end of 60 - in the 70-th years ministry
advice under the prices was created, they have is observant - consultative
functions.
In each country at government or its separate bodies there are expert
committees, where the known experts, and advice, in which they meeting the
representatives of trade unions, unions of the peasants, dealers,
businessmen and representatives of state bodies enter; the committees are
called to advise state bodies on the prices and to express the opinion
concerning the price administration bills.
Let's consider state price control in a historical and logic sequence.
The supervision over the prices is the primary form of state activity
in this area. The business not only that from it began state price control;
now supervision over the prices forms the basis, on which all state actions
in this area are based. In supervision over the prices the central
statistical managements are engaged. The independent researches of movement
of the prices frequently will carry out the research centres of trade
unions special commissions under orders of a management of parties,
international organisations.
Overall objective of supervision behind the prices on the part of state
bodies and social partners - change of growth of cost of life for
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