Recently, news has been regularly received that it is necessary to urgently impose taxes and customs duties on all purchases in foreign online stores. Various models of taxation of foreign stores have been proposed, but very soon this will become a reality, and purchases will become more expensive.

Thanks to this, the authorities are thinking to replenish the budget, and most importantly, to save our Russian stores, which cannot withstand competition with aliexpress, ebay.com and many others. Saving our stores may seem like a good thing, but let's see why they are needed.

There is only one benefit from our stores - they create jobs. But comparing prices in Russian and foreign stores, sometimes you can see real rudeness. Russian shops very often sell goods 2-3 times more expensive. This applies not only to every little thing, but also to quite expensive things. Why should we overpay so much?



Russian shops create jobs, but if you look at them more seriously, it turns out that many of them are not registered in Russia at all and in fact use Russia as a place to sell goods at inflated prices. At the same time, they pay small salaries to their employees. Why should we save such a predatory business at our own expense?

Although in any case, no one will ask us. As the authorities decide, so it will be. Very soon, purchases at our favorite net-a-porter.com, shopbop.com, ebay.com, aliexpress.com will cost more and this is certainly upsetting.



The photo above is a visual comparison of prices. In net-a-porter.com the approximate price is 4700, in the Russian store 8800.