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On 29 December, President Vladimir Putin signed a number of laws, including Federal Law No. 473-FZ "On territories of advanced social and economic development in the Russian Federation" established a legal regime for Russian territories,...

Pepeliaev Group advises that new requirements for the personal data of Russian nationals to be kept in electronic form in Russia are being introduced as early as on 1 September 2015.

The Russian President has signed amendments to the Russian Tax Code (Federal Law No. 382-FZ dated 29 November 2014), according to which Moscow, St Petersburg and Sevastopol may introduce a sales tax from 1 July 2015. The rate of the sales...

Pepeliaev Group advises that in view of new case law, any expenses of a Russian company incurred to make payments to a foreign company within one international group of companies may not be treated as deductible for profit tax purposes.  ...

On 4 November the Russian President signed the following federal laws:
No. 348-FZ "On amending part one of the Russian Tax Code". Russia will have a system of proactive tax control (so-called tax monitoring) for major organisations,...

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian law on “tax repatriation”1 has been signed and will come into force from 2015. This new law may have the following implications:

1. control by Russian persons over foreign structures,...

Federal Law No. 308-FZ "On amending the Russian Criminal Procedure Code" dated 22 October 2014 has been signed. Russian investigators have the right to initiate criminal cases with regard to tax crimes at their own discretion (without...