One of the most discussed topics throughout 2018 was active implementation of a risk-based approach among tax authorities. This article covers the highlights of 2018 associated with the advent of the "digital era" of taxation.
Olga Kuramshina

Olga Kuramshina
Ex-Leading Lawyer
Tax and Legal Practice
Korpus Prava (Russia)

Although in the past year the most notable and discussed reforms were the reforms of tax legislation, another noteworthy trend should be noted as well. Lawmakers have begun to actively reform one of the most, perhaps, static branches of the Russian law – the labor legislation.

As we have written in special annual edition of Analytics, in September 2014 radical amendments were introduced to the Russian civil law concerning corporate law provisions. The lawmaker has significantly revised structure of types of legal entities operating in the Russian Federation, and introduced new terms previously unfamiliar to [...]

Notorious events in the Crimea and in the southeast of Ukraine have caused major changes in European and American economic policy concerning the Russian business and, subsequently and promptly, reciprocal measures on the part of the Russian administration.