The story of the failure of the GRA tools to complete the excess profits tax bill is intended to remind you that the laws of the State Duma contain additional tools for cultural lobbying of interests within the budget procedure.
We are talking about sections 121.1 and 121.2 of the regulations, into which "working groups to overcome differences" were introduced in 2007, but were never used. They describe the interaction of the Committee on Budget and Taxes with relevant committees in the preparation of the federal budget for second reading.
The logic of these norms is quite interesting. The Budget and Taxes Committee produces amendment tables and sends them to the relevant committees. These have three days from the day the amendments are received to present their decisions and identify representatives who will participate in their consideration.
But the most interesting thing is section 121.2 of the regulations.
If the position of the relevant amendment committee differs from the decision of the budget and taxes committee, the relevant committee may initiate the establishment of a special parliamentary group to overcome differences of opinion. The budget committee is obliged to immediately make a decision on its establishment.
The group is built on the basis of parity: six deputies - three from each committee. On behalf of the chairman of the State Duma, its work is coordinated by one of his deputies with the right of an advisory vote. Up to two days are allocated to consider controversial amendments. The decision is recorded in the protocol and taken into account when preparing the final corrections tables. That is, the relevant committee can convince the budget and taxes committee to move an amendment from the table for acceptance to the table for rejection or vice versa.
Basically, it is a mechanism ready to coordinate interests within the parliament itself. Moreover, Vyacheslav Volodin recently drew attention to the need for more active participation of joint executive committees in the preparation of bills for second reading. The budget is the same law.
After all, we are not only talking about the hardware procedure.