The corresponding decree was previously signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, retaining concessional charges for shippers for using Federal roads.

Tariff "Plato" since launching the system November 15, 2015 totaled 1.53 rubles per kilometer. With April 15, the planned abolition of preferential tariffs – a charge per kilometer was to be 3.06 rubles.

The money goes to the Federal road Fund as compensation for the use of trails by trucks weighing more than 12 tons. Fees of the system according to 15 April 2017 exceeded 23.5 billion.

The first funds from the "Plato" made it possible to repair more than a thousand kilometers in 40 cities and regions and also to co-Finance the emergency repair 24 overpasses and the construction of 7 major bridges, such as Bor bridge in Nizhny Novgorod, Voroshilovsky bridge in Rostov and Zatonsky bridge in Ufa.

It is reported that truckers will choose the Federal road repair fees Plato. The Ministry of transport of Russia and the Russian popular front opened on the website "Map of dead roads," a special vote. According to the results of a survey of owners and drivers of trucks for repairs of their chosen roads will be allocated to the road Fund collected by the system "Platon".

Registered in the system carriers are exempt from vehicle tax – they use the right tax deduction. While the regional budgets are fully compensated for the deduction of funds from "Plato", the government allocated 8.7 billion rubles depending on the number of local trucks actually registered in the Plato.

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