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Pepeliaev Group advises that the Ministry of Labour and Social Security has devised the draft order “On approving the regulation on the procedure for conducting an experiment aimed at using work-related electronic documents”

On 16 May 2020, the Russian Government’s Resolution No. 699, was adopted which amends the previously established Rules for granting a deferral (instalment plan) for the payment of taxes, advance payments on taxes and insurance contributions.

According to Resolution No. 576 of the Russian Government dated 24 April 2020, one of the conditions that SMEs from the “most affected” sectors should meet to be entered into the register of subsidy recipients is that they should not have had tax arrears of over RUB 3,000 as at 1 March 2020. This amount is calculated taking into account all the existing arrears and overpayments (penalties, fines and interest are not taken into account). 

On 19 May 2020 a draft law on amendments to tax legislation was submitted to the State Duma. This draft law is aimed at implementing a so-called ‘third set’ of support measures for business and the public in connection with the coronavirus infection.  

Pepeliaev Group advises that, on 13 May 2020, Resolution No. 574-PP of the Moscow Government (the Resolution) was adopted which approves the procedure for grants from the budget of the city of Moscow to owners of commercial real estate that have decreased the rent rate for tenants in the conditions of the crisis because of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Pepeliaev Group advises that on 13 May 2020 the Russian State Duma adopted in the third reading Draft Law No. 487583-7 (the ‘Draft Law’), which amends the Russian Housing Code (the ‘Housing Code’) in terms of the procedure for holding general meetings of the owners of premises in a BOF in the form of an absentee voting using information systems.