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Legal overviews
03 August 2018
Overview of Tax Events for July 2018

The State Duma’s spring session resulted in a number of significant tax laws being adopted, some of which the Russian President has already signed.
Alerts
23 July 2018
Decision of the European Court of justice on the prevention of abuse of international tax treaties

Pepeliaev Group advises that a decision in favour of a taxpayer was handed down by the European Court of Justice. This may be of significance for the development in Russia of the concept of a beneficial owner.


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Alerts
16 July 2018
Liability for the violation of the rules for waste treatment is planned to become more stringent

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft law “On amending the Russian Code of Administrative Offences” which proposes to supplement articles 8.2, 8.4 and 8.6 with new articles and to introduce...

Alerts
12 July 2018
Explanations of the Russian Supreme Court regarding transportation by motor vehicles and freight forwarding activities

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court”) has provided explanations on a number of matters which arise in the practice of the application of legislation concerning contracts for transportation...
Alerts
11 July 2018
New explanations of the plenum of Russian supreme court with respect to major transactions and interested-party transactions

Resolution No. 27 of the Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court dated 26 June 2018 was published with explanations of the rules for challenging major transactions and interested-party transactions. The previous explanations (Resolution No. 28 ...

Alerts
10 July 2018
Tax authorities are imposing stricter controls over the justifiability of expenses on intragroup services
Pepeliaev Group advises that a risk exists that the Federal Tax Service's Inter-regional Inspectorate No. 1 for major taxpayers may file claims with respect to expenses on intragroup services incurred by an entity.
Legal overviews
09 July 2018
Overview of Tax Events for June 2018

On 16 June Resolution No. 693 of the Russian Government was signed ‘On the implementation of the international automatic exchange of financial information with competent authorities of foreign states (territories)’. 

Alerts
06 July 2018
Joining the federal agricultural industry agreement for 2018-2020

At federal level, the industry agreement has been adopted which sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in Russia's agricultural industry. To refuse to join the agreement, a well-grounded written refusal should ...

Alerts
03 July 2018
Important changes to the migration registration process for foreign nationals in Russia

On 27 June 2018, the Russian President signed Federal Law No. 163-FZ On amending the Federal Law ‘On registering foreign nationals and stateless persons with migration authorities in Russia’.