Taxes

Google and Facebook taken to task, Twitter suspected of user data misuse

September 11, 2013 November 19, 2014

Ruslan Gattarov, a Russian senator who has recently become an advocate for the privacy of Russian Internet users, continues his crusade against what he perceives as the unlawful actions of the world’s largest Internet companies in Russia. In late August, he asked the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation and Roskomnadzor, the key federal …

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Google under scrutiny by Russian authorities for tax evasion and illegitimate data transfers

July 25, 2013 November 19, 2014

A prominent Russian legislator has censured Google for shifting its Russian tax burden to local contractors – just weeks after Google and other US Internet companies were accused of avoiding taxes in countries like France, Italy, and the UK. Ruslan Gattarov, a senator heading the committee for information policy of the Council of the Federation …

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Russia considers imposing customs fees on GPS receivers without GLONASS support

July 21, 2011 July 21, 2011

Russian authorities are not ruling out the establishment of customs fees on imported hardware equipped with GPS navigators not supported by the Russian national satellite navigation system GLONASS. “Currently the fee is zero. There are plans to introduce customs fees for GPS equipment that is notoriented to GLONASS GPS. It is possible that [the customs …

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WiMax tenders announced as doubts appear on market perspectives

June 21, 2011 June 21, 2011

The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has announced on its website last week that it will conduct three tenders for licenses to provide fixed WiMAX services in the 3.4-3.45GHz and 3.5-3.55GHz frequency bands in 30 Russian regions.

New tax legislation adopted to boost innovation

June 16, 2011 June 16, 2011

The Russian President signed amendments to the Federal Tax Code last week aimed at fostering the development of innovation across the nation. The new legislation accounts for a revised concept of R&D expenditure in respect to the creation of new products, works and services or towards the improvement of existing products as well as for …

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