Many taxpayers fail to use legitimate means to cut their tax burden, because they do not know that these means exist, they are afraid of having to prove their point before the tax authorities or are just unwilling to depart from their long-established accounting practice.
Currently, considerable discussion surrounds the so-called ‘Roadmap’ that is being developed by the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). This document offers a programme of steps to develop competition between 2013 and 2018. The Roadmap puts forward a range of measures aimed at making the FAS more independent in administrative, functional and financial terms.
The main issue in the Protocol to the DTT with Switzerland is that there are new terms regarding information exchange. These terms cover issues with regard to both the taxes within the scope of the DTT (taxes on income, capital gains, and property) and, moreover, with regard to indirect taxes (VAT and excise duty among them).
Over the past 20 years Russian business has been desperately trying to adopt and apply the best U.S. and European legal tools for corporate governance.
World Trade Organisation (WTO). According to an official spokesperson from the Russian Ministry Affairs, on 23 July the Government of the Russian Federation notified the WTO that Russia had completed all the internal procedures required to assume membership, including the ratification of the Marrakesh Agreement, dated 15 April 1994, which established the WTO and which was signed in Geneva on 16 December 2011.
In the current economic situation in Russia, when the state is actively involved in regulating the economy and robustly uses its administrative resources to regulate business processes, liaising with the state and local administration becomes an important component of a successful business
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