Revised the “parallel tax system”

At the request of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (the “Chamber”), we performed research on: the essence of payments which are similar to taxes and levies but which are not contained in the Russian Tax Code (so-called non-tax payments); the areas in which legal regulation could be improved; and how to make such payments more efficient. Based on the work we performed,a systematic approach has been proposed for such payments.

The research is not only instrumental in fulfilling the Russian President’s Address on creating a uniform and holistic mechanism for the administration of tax, customs and other fiscal payments, but it also creates a foundation for the best global practices for collecting such payments to be adopted in Russia.

The report on the results of this research served as a basis for the President of the Chamber's report to the Russian President on 29 December 2015. Based on the results of the report and the discussion of it at the congress of the Chamber on 1 March 2016, the Russian President instructed the Russian Government to prepare a plan of actions (the Roadmap) to systematise such public payments.