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Pepeliaev Group advises: On 13 October 2015, the Russian Supreme Court adopted its Plenum’s Resolution No. 45 "On certain issues relating to procedures being brought into effect to be used in insolvency (bankruptcy) proceedings involving individuals". This clarifies how specific provisions of Federal Law No. 127-FZ "On insolvency (bankruptcy)" should be implemented. The provisions in question came into force on 1 October 2015 and regulate the bankruptcy of individuals.

Pepeliaev Group advises that Russian Ministry of Finance has placed, for public consultation a draft law "On amending Chapter 21 of Part II of the Russian Tax Code (regarding the procedure for determining the tax base when an advance payment is received). 

At the federal level, industrial agreements have been adopted setting additional obligations and automatically extending to companies engaged in the timber industry in Russia. To refuse to join the agreements, companies should submit well-grounded refusals to the Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (the "Ministry of Labour") by 8 October 2015.

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian Government has adopted a Resolution (the "Resolution") which has amended the rules for registering and re-registering the maximum selling prices for manufacturers of medicines included in the List of Vital and Essential Medicines ("VEM"). The Resolution also provides for a new method for calculating such prices .

The Resolution came into effect on 1 October 2015. 

Pepeliaev Group reminds you that, as early as on 1 January 2016, the ban on using ‘staff leasing’ (in Russian ‘zayomny trud’) is to take effect.

Pepeliaev Group advises that merging a loss-making company into a profitable one and including the former's losses in the form of negative exchange rates in the expenses of a profitable company may be recognised by the courts as actions aimed at obtaining an unjustified tax benefit.