Richter Alexander

(1837 - 1898). Educated at the Alexander Lyceum. In 1859 he was appointed to study the drafting committee on Peasant Affairs. In 1861 - 1862 he. consisted peace mediator in Samara. In the 70 years involved in the commission to revise the system of taxes and fees. In 1878 he was sent to the Adjutant-General Prince Dondukova-Korsakov and served as a member of the board of financial management in Bulgaria. In 1882, the Minister of Finance N.H. Bunge, has been appointed director of the department accountant fees. One after another followed in its reform efforts to the reconstruction of the system of direct taxes in the sense of balancing tax burdens. This reorganization fiscal system resulted in the need to reform the local tax-paying management, project P. was established (1885) Institute of taxation inspectors. Shortly after replacing Bunge Vyshnegradsky P. was appointed a board member of the Minister of Finance. He was assigned to work on the revision of statutes on the Zemsky taxation which had resulted in the law of 8 June 1893 on the assessment of real estate. He also chaired a committee on general income taxation. In 1893, P. was appointed chairman of the commission to revise the statutes to charge accountant fees from the peasants. As a man of great intelligence, a broad education and a strong will, ardently devoted to his work, P. always knew how to surround himself with energetic staff, making him a relatively short period and managed to hold such a major reform of how The tax. For many years he was zemstvo and an honorary magistrate in the Kaluga province. After the death of P. printed compiled for statistical essay: how to distribute our wealth "(" Russian Economic Review "for 1898," 3), representing Russia's first attempt to take into account the distribution of assets among all segments of the population. D. R.