The tax on "parasites" will not be collected within the next year, however, the corresponding decree will not be canceled, said the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

"Decree No. 3 on the prevention of social dependency will not be canceled, but within a year it was entrusted not to exact an appropriate fee," Lukashenka said..

According to him, the "tax on parasites" does not pursue financial and economic goals.

"This is an ideological, moral decree. There is no big money there the state will not get.

The purpose of this decree is to force those who must and who can. This is the main thing, "he said..

Lukashenka instructed the government to finalize by April 1 the lists of those who must make payments.

Let's remind that in 2014 the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko approved the idea to return to the legislation of the republic the penalty for parasitism.

On February 17, several thousand people went to Minsk for the "March of the Angry Belarusians" action against the "tax on parasitism".