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[cle-fable.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help yesterday.  i have a long piece to translate on lobbying and the changes to it over time.  It appeared in Vremya Novostei in October 2003.

I don't think it'll be feasible to post the whole thing but I'd like to post individual paragraphs if I may.

Тем не менее лоббистская деятельность нефтегазового пула -- пример для подражания другим отраслям. Результаты коллективного лоббизма очевидны: ставка налога на прибыль снижена с 35 до 24%, список относимых на расходы затрат расширен, введен единый налог на добычу полезных ископаемых, закреплена в законе шкала изменения экспортной пошлины на нефть в зависимости от колебания на нее мировых цен. Попутно с налоговыми вопросами решена и часть неналоговых, в частности доступ к трубе ограничен объемом добываемой компанией нефти. Этим, как, впрочем, и единой ставкой налога на добычу, крупные нефтяные компании не только обеспечили себе приемлемый режим работы, но и заодно поставили в крайне тяжелое положение конкурентов -- средние и мелкие компании. По уверению представителя одной из компаний, это была установка ЮКОСа, который стремится таким образом обанкротить небольшие компании, чтобы затем, скупив их месторождения, увеличить свои запасы и повысить свою капитализацию.

I don't actually understand this phrase.  By definition it has to be sonmmething positive from the oil company's point of view.  Literally it means what is added to the list of expenditure has been increased.  Is that positive because you don't then have to pay tax on it?  if anyone knows more about finance than me I'd be grateful for some guidance.

Also I can't find the term расходы затрат I can find them individually of course but as a phrase I can't make much sense of it.

Here is my translation for the rest:

Nevertheless, the example set by the oil and gas lobby is worthy of emulation in other sectors.  The results of collective lobbying are plain to see: the tax rate on taxable profit has been reduced from 35 per cent to 24 per cent, a single tax on mining operations has been introduced and limits on the raising and lowering of oil expert tariffs according to fluctuation on the world market have been clarified in law.  Other issues have been settled in conjunction with tax issues: one example is that the volume of oil these companies extract has restricted access to the pipelines.  Alongside the fixed tax rate on mining operations has not only permitted the oil giants flexibility in scheduling their operations but has simultaneously enabled them to drive out their competitors – the small and medium-sized oil companies.

Thank you

Comments

[pitsot.livejournal.com]

there is no such term as расходы затрат, it sounds as nonsense
emphasized phrase could be rephrased as "список затрат, относящихся к расходам - расширен"

and yes, it means that list of expenditure costs is extended
I suppose your guess about taxes is correct, though I don't know for sure

[oryx_and_crake]

it is a perfectly legitimate phrase, just the word order is slightly askew: список затрат, относимых на расходы

[nina-jordan.livejournal.com]

The point is that some types of costs can be charged to certain item in the income statement and not taxed. So the phrase highlighted in bold could be translated as "the list of deductible costs was expanded".

[khathi.livejournal.com]

This basically refers to the taxing. When oil company is taxed, the tax generally depends on income, not revenue, as a way to discourage companies from hiding the revenue and thus saving on taxes. There is specifical list of non-taxabe expenses that could be taken off the book before taxes are paid. So it's only naturally that the wider is this list, the more companies could write off as expenses, and smaller is the tax. Naturally they would be happy to increase their tax breaks.

[rower.livejournal.com]

it seems, you have lost the last phrase : it's something like "as representative of one of companys has assured - it was a suggestion from ЮКОС, which tries to bankrupt smaller companies in this way, to raise its capitalization and increase its [oil] reserves by bying their (bancrupt companys) oilfields."