The Government of the Republic of Dagestan adopted Decree No. 207 dated 25.06.2008 "On Assessment of the
Budgetary and Social Effectiveness of the Tax Reliefs Provided in Accordance with the Legislation of the
Republic of Dagestan". In accordance with the said Decree, assessment of the effectiveness of the reliefs
provided by the regional legislation is assigned to the sectorial executive authorities. The Ministry of Economy
of the Republic of Dagestan provides coordination of this work and prepares a consolidated report based on the
materials provided by sectoral executive authorities. The effect of the tax reliefs provided by the federal
legislation is virtually not calculated (except for the quantitative losses of the budget by certain preferences
calculated by the Department of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Dagestan
and registered in the Tax Report Form of the region). At that, as shown by the research, almost 90% of tax losses
in the region are due to the tax reliefs provided by the federal legislation. Totally, the losses of the regional
budget of the Republic of Dagestan tend to grow. At the same time, during the 2010-2011 period, the growth rate
of the losses of the budget of the Republic of Dagestan due to the provision of tax reliefs has been far ahead of
the tax revenues growth rate (Table 1). The calculations according to the Department of the Federal Tax Service
of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Dagestan evidence that the lost revenues of the republic's budget
due to the provision of tax reliefs increased in 2013 by 157.8%, compared to 2010, including the increase of the
losses due to the tax reliefs provided by the Tax Code of the Russian Federation by 163.1% (Table 1). In this
situation, the calculation of the budget losses due to tax reliefs provided by the federal legislation should be of
first priority. In 2013, compared to 2012, the Republic of Dagestan showed decrease in the republic's budget
losses caused by the preferential taxation. This decrease was determined by cancelling a number of tax reliefs
provided locally, particularly, the tax reliefs for the land use tax, cancelled since 01.01.2013 for organizations
and citizens, such as public authorities engaged in control over land use; land for distant-pasture cattle tending,
transferred for reclamation in accordance with the established procedure, as well as the land plots newly
developed for terrace agriculture for the period of 5 years; citizens who organized peasant farms for the first time
on the wasteland for the period of 10 years, starting from the time when they were given the land plots. This
approach is generally in line with the concept of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, which
assumes cancelling any reliefs during 2-3 years. However, the reliefs cancelling without assessing their
budgetary, economic, and social effectiveness is not reasonable, as it can implicitly lead to more negative
consequences in the economy, such as winding-up of enterprises, unemployment growth, growth of prices for
products, exodus of capital, etc., i.e. actual ignoring of the regulatory function of taxes.