TOMSK, Jan 8 – RIA Tomsk. Volume of investment of residents of Tomsk special economic zone (Tomsk SEZ) into productions for all the time of its existence reached level of budgetary costs of construction and development of SEZ – 14 billion rubles by the end of 2018, representative of department of investments of the Tomsk region reported in response to inquiry of RIA Tomsk.
Earlier it was reported on the website of Audit Chamber of Russia that by results of the analysis of efficiency of the budgetary investments to 25 SEZ of Russia only three were recognized as effective: "Alabuga" in Tatarstan, SEZ in the Lipetsk region and St. Petersburg where the amount of investments of residents exceeded the budgetary expenses. In other 22 SEZ investments of residents are lower, than the volume of the budgetary investments.
"The total amount of investments into construction and development of the Tomsk SEZ at the expense of budgetary funds was about 14 billion rubles (8.16 billion – the federal budget, 5.53 billion – the budget of the Tomsk region, means of federal MC SEZ – 0.29 billion) … During functioning of the Tomsk SEZ (since 2006 – Ed.) residents carried out 14.1 billion rubles of investments", – it is said in the statement of the department.
According to the department, only in the first half of the year 2018 residents of the Tomsk SEZ invested about 1.3 billion rubles in development of own productions and created more than 200 jobs. In total during action of the Tomsk SEZ 2100 jobs appeared there.
"The volume of investments of residents of the Tomsk SEZ in current (2018) year reached the level of the budgetary costs of creation of objects of its infrastructure", – it is emphasized in the message of department of investments.
The Tomsk SEZ, one of six technology development zones of the Russian Federation, was opened on April 26, 2006. Now there are 73 residents in the SEZ, it is planned that by 2020 their number will grow to 106.