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Legal overviews
09 January 2020
Overview of Tax events for December 2019

Russia has joined the new OECD procedure that allows potential disputes with multinational corporations to be settled at the pre-trial stage (International Compliance Assurance Programme (ICAP) 2.0).

Alerts
24 December 2019
The Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court has adopted a resolution on liability for tax offences

Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that, the Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court (the “Plenum”) has adopted Resolution No. 48 dated 26 November 2019 clarifying certain issues concerning criminal liability imposed under articles 198, 199, 199.1...

Alerts
20 December 2019
The Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court has adopted a resolution explaining issues of interaction between state and arbitral jurisprudence

Pepeliaev Group advises that on 10 December 2019 the Russian Supreme Court adopted its Plenum’s Resolution No. 53 “On Russian courts performing assistance and control functions with respect to arbitral proceedings and international commercial...

Alerts
09 December 2019
The State Duma has adopted a law on new fines in the area of personal data
Pepeliaev Group advises that on 21 November 2019 the Russian State Duma has adopted in the third reading a law establishing enormous fines for violating requirements for localising personal data in Russia.
Legal overviews
06 December 2019
Overview of Tax events for November 2019

The Russian Finance Ministry and the Federal Tax Service consider as insufficiently effective their cooperation with experts from the World Bank with respect to the tax section of the Doing Business (DB) ranking. 

Articles and comments
03 December 2019
Is Russian software unrivalled?
The conclusions of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia ("FAS of Russia") relating to the Google case, in which the service pointed out the increased barriers for domestic developers seeking to enter the mobile software market,...
Alerts
11 November 2019
The Russian Ministry of Labour has issued recommendations for assessing and preventing corruption in companies
Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that the Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Russian Federation (the “Ministry of Labour”) has published a number of documents dedicated to preventing corruption in companies.
Legal overviews
11 November 2019
Overview of Tax events for October 2019
Russia was ranked 28th in 'Doing Business', the World Bank's updated ratings, moving up by three positions in comparison with last year. Russian Government officials do not agree with such a low assessment.
Alerts
08 November 2019
A promissory note is not always equal to a loan relationship
Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court”) has issued a ruling[1] to establish the legal nature of the redemption of a promissory note.