• The “Book of Complaints” will not be a “black list”
• New trend in the banking market
• If you perform controlled transactions
• Belarus was imbued with prey of bog oak
• Chandelier “grown” in the laboratory

Everything that happened last week in Ukraine and the world and is relevant for the furniture maker, read our digest:

1. At the tender site Prozorro want to make a list of unreliable participants in the field of public procurement. This was announced by Andrey Kuzmenko, Deputy Director General of the State Enterprise “Prozorro” for the development of business processes, but immediately noticed that the format for it has not yet been approved – consultations are underway.
Tenderers have long complained about each other to Prozorro management and to the competent authorities (the Antimonopoly Committee and the State Audit Office). Suppliers talk about unscrupulous customers, and companies that purchase goods and services are accused of counterparty dishonesty.
Therefore, on the site, they are considering how to turn this “book of complaints” into a red registry so that it will not be called a “black list”. It must be one that cannot be manipulated by receiving information about unscrupulous customers and suppliers.
Andrey Kuzmenko explained his reluctance to create a blacklist with technical and legal problems that may arise in Prozorro as a state enterprise. In addition, nowhere is the law stipulating the criteria and mechanism that would allow “labeling” unscrupulous partners.

2. New trend in the banking market – bank-as-a-service, that is, a bank embedded in virtually any process in which a person participates. Bankers seek to customize their systems so that users forget that they use banking services – everything happens so easily and unnoticed. Some banks are trying to expand all their traditional business in this direction, others are creating “superstructures” over the main business. In fact, these add-ons are IT companies that take on marketing, sales, customer support, creating new products, etc., leaving the banks only trouble in opening and maintaining accounts. Another name for such IT companies is non-banks.
There is no banking license in the bank, all operations are carried out on customer accounts in partner banks. In fact, a non-bank provides its partners — both banks and suppliers of goods and services — with their software in which banking services are “secured”. As a result, a client may request a taxi or a flower delivery in a bank chat, deposit money into his account, transfer money and issue a refund of a defective product to a seller. In general, the point is to “cross” banking and non-banking products, building on their basis something clear and convenient for the consumer, within which everything will work independently (the same bank-as-a-service).

3. The control of fiscal authorities on controlled transactions involving intermediaries will be strengthened. Of course, total control, because it is inefficient and resource-intensive.
Get under the scope of the tax can be different. First of all, when during the current control the tax authority to study the company’s business operations. With high probability we can assume that it will be commodity operations. Since the tax authorities have at their disposal customs declarations, where the consignor and consignee are indicated; contract holder, that is, the person responsible for the financial support of the transaction. Thus, the tax authorities will have enough information to understand: this is a direct contract with the manufacturer or a chain of intermediaries is involved.
The tax can dig even deeper, especially if the intermediary is a Ukrainian company, about which a priori there is more information in GFS. For example, check if the company is still working with someone or is serving only one supply chain. You can check everything – from the level of tax payment in the number of employees in the office and the specifics of all operations.

4. The Ministry of Natural Resources of Belarus proposes to discuss the rules for extracting bog oak, which is considered valuable wood in the world, from which very expensive exclusive things are made. Furniture sets and souvenirs were created from the stained oak, which now occupy pride of place in the museums of fine arts and antique salons all over the world. A cubic meter of this wood costs an average of $ 2,000. In Belarus, according to scientists, its reserves are significant.
Scientists say that large stocks of bog oak remained only in the post-Soviet space. For example, in European countries for 100 years, even finding a piece of bog oak is an event. And such finds are reported in the media.

5. Designers from the Czech jewelry studio “Zarya” together with the Museum of Decorative Art of Dresden created a lamp using the method of controlled crystallization. The base was taken from the metal frame of a traditional carob chandelier, on which crystals of mineral salts were grown.
The shape and design of the lamp correspond to the luxury of a classic interior, and due to an unusual finish it looks like a jewel. The chandelier had to be “grown” in the laboratory: each of the 18 steel horns was immersed in a special solution and kept at a certain temperature. In general, the development of such a method from designers and museum workers took nearly six years.
The result of painstaking work was the exhibition “From Dust to Glitter or How to Crystal Chandelier Grows”. Visitors watched the “growth” of the lamp in the crescent lab. Placed already enough grown chandelier in one of the halls of the palace Pilnits in the suburbs of Dresden. After the exhibition, the chandelier will remain in the museum’s collection.