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Pepeliaev Group advises that in its Ruling No. 575-O dated 28 March 2024, the Russian Constitutional Court recognised as an ongoing offence prohibited information being present in the Internet that had been posted before it was recognised as prohibited.

Pepeliaev Group advises that, on 9 July 2024, a draft federal law was put before the State Duma, which proposes to amend Federal Law No. 44-FZ “On the contractual system in the area of the procurement of goods, work or services to secure state and municipal needs” dated 5 April 2013 with a view to optimising the procedure for making purchases.

Pepeliaev Group advises that, pursuant to Federal Law No. 176-FZ dated 12 July 2024, starting from 2025 the resort levy that is being charged in a number of Russia’s constituent entities by way of an experiment will be transformed into tourist tax.

The State Duma and the Federation Council have adopted the final version of a draft lawwhich sets the rules of a “tax amnesty” for taxpayers that use the “splitting up of a business”.

The Federal Tax Service has issued a new Overview of legal positions based on the results of taxpayers’ appeals considered in Q1 2024. The Overview presents 30 points relating to different matters including VAT, administration, identifying actual tax obligations and tax liability, as well as certain matters connected with Part Two of the Russian Tax Code.

In the table below, we summarise the legal positions of the Tax Service which we see as the most interesting and important.

On 21 June 2024, draft law No. 652920-8 “On amending article 12 of the Federal Law ‘On counteracting extremist activity’ and articles 5 and 38 of the Federal Law ‘On advertising’” (the “Draft Law”) was put before the State Duma.