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Russian restaurateur Beloivan declared bankrupt

The Moscow Commercial Court has declared the owner of Tavern Taras Bulba restaurant chain Yury Beloivan bankrupt upon a petition filed by a Moscow inspection of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).

13:21 06.07.2022

Kaspersky Lab challenges recovery of $575,000 tax arrears

Kaspersky Lab has filed a cassation appeal against a commercial court’s ruling ordering the company to pay corporate income tax in the amount of 41.6 million rubles (about $575,000 at the current exchange rate).

11:59 07.10.2021

Recovery of $560,000 tax arrears from Kaspersky Lab upheld

The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has confirmed a lower court decision saying that Kaspersky Lab was to additionally pay corporate income tax in the amount of 41.6 million rubles (about $560,000).

12:37 03.08.2021

Russia’s Business Ombudsman urges tax amnesty for businesses affected by pandemic

The Presidential Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov has submitted his proposals as to a new cycle of measures aimed at supporting of entrepreneurship to First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov.

13:00 02.03.2021

Case over TOAZ assets fraud in the Makhlais interests forwarded to prosecutors

The Main Directorate on Major Crimes Investigation of Russia’s Investigative Committee has completed a probe into a criminal case against Xenia Balashova, the CEO of “Kontaz LLC”. Balashova stands charged with evasion of the profit tax for year 2008 (p.p. a, b of Article 199.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Earlier, Balashova pleaded guilty to the crimes charged declaring she acted under direct instructions of Vladimir Makhlai.

11:41 17.02.2021

Putin humanizes treatment of tax offences in Russia

President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law envisaging that defendants charged with tax offences are not to be held criminally liable in cases where they have repaid the amounts in question in the course of court proceedings.

16:03 15.10.2020

Russian senators back humanization of tax offences provisions

The Federation Council of Russia has approved humanization of treatment of tax offences.

10:26 08.10.2020

Russian business rights advocates favor humanization of tax offences treatment

Humanization of treatment of tax offences will positively reflect on both business community and state, believes civil ombudsman for protection of detained businesspersons’ rights Alexander Khurudzhi.

14:00 30.09.2020

State Duma adopts bill on humanization of treatment of tax offences

The State Duma has passed in the third and final reading a federal draft law envisaging that defendants charged with tax offences are not to be held criminally liable in cases where they have repaid the amounts in question in the course of court proceedings.

15:59 29.09.2020

Mistaken tax deduction applications are not fraud – Russia’s Constitutional Court

The Russian Criminal Code does not imply that citizens are to be found guilty of fraud if they could get unjustified tax benefits associated with purchase of residential properties because of mistakes made by tax authorities if such taxpayers submitted documents free of signs of forgery, according to a ruling passed by Russia’s Constitutional Court.

17:45 24.07.2020

Chair of Russia’s government puts mass media on list of COVID-19 affected sectors

Chairman of Russia’s government Mikhail Mishustin has signed a resolution putting mass media outlets on the list of the sectors of the economy most badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

16:26 29.05.2020

Russia’s Cabinet submits bill on freeing payments to medics from personal income tax

Russia’s government has submitted to the State Duma a bill envisaging to amend the Tax Code so the payments to doctors and medical staff engaged in care of coronavirus-infected patients be not subjected to the personal income tax, according to Cabinet Chair Mikhail Mishustin.

16:44 16.04.2020

Special tax regime for self-employed people legislatively approved in Russia

President Vladimir Putin has extended a special beneficial tax treatment to self-employed persons across Russia. The law’s version signed by the President has been published on the official website of legal information.

00:11 02.04.2020

State Duma backs special tax regime for self-employed Russians

The State Duma adopted on Tuesday a bill extending a special beneficial tax treatment to self-employed persons across Russia. Previously, such a regime applied to the individual earners only in 23 regions.

11:39 31.03.2020

Businessman charged with $7.6 mln VAT refund fraud sentenced to 10 years in prison

CEO of Petropolis company Mark Bronovsky has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 600,000 rubles (about $7,700) for a 590-million-ruble ($7.6 million) tax refund fraud.

11:59 27.03.2020

Recovery of $1 mln from Russian restaurateur, his partner upheld

The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has dismissed an appeal against a lower court order to recover about 69 million rubles ($1 million) jointly from the Tavern Taras Bulba restaurant chain owner Yury Beloivan and ex-director of City limited liability company Olga Ponomareva.

11:35 19.03.2020

Ex-director of Russian shipbuilding yard gets 7 years in jail for non-payment of salaries

A court in Russia’s Astrakhan Region has sentenced the former director of a shipbuilding yard Alexander Ilyichev to 7 years in a penal colony for non-payment of salaries.

15:36 25.02.2020

TOAZ case defendants suspected of attempted bribery of Russian Supreme Court

A criminal case over attempted bribery on an especially large scale (part 3 of Article 30 and part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) has been instituted against the beneficiary of Togliattiazot PJSC (TOAZ) Sergey Makhlai, the former chairman of the board of Togliattikhimbank Alexander Popov and the former head of the TOAZ security service Oleg Antoshin. According to the investigation, the suspects intended to bribe judges of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for canceling the decision to recover tax arrears from TOAZ.

15:40 30.01.2020

Russian restaurateur Beloivan ordered to pay $1 mln more to tax authority

The Moscow Commercial Court has granted a Federal Tax Service’s claim to collect about 69 million rubles ($1 million) jointly from the Tavern Taras Bulba restaurant chain owner Yury Beloivan and ex-director of City limited liability company Olga Ponomareva.

12:22 03.12.2019

Russians taking mortgage holidays privilege to be exempt from income tax

A bill on exemption of people exercising the right to mortgage holidays from income taxes was signed by President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.

19:34 03.07.2019