The New Year brought numerous changes, particularly in taxation. Changes were introduced to various chapters of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, i. e. Corporate Profit Tax, Personal Income Tax, Simplified Tax System, Insurance Premium, Property Tax and many others. This article will cover those amendments that apply [...]
Svetlana Sviridenkova

Svetlana Sviridenkova
Director
Audit Practice
Korpus Prava (Russia)
Federal Law No. 231-FZ dated 29 July 2018 (the Law) amending Part One of the Tax Code will come into force on 1 January 2019. According to this Law, the tax authorities will have the opportunity to obtain information about taxpayers from audit organizations and individual auditors (auditors).
Since January 1, 2019, numerous changes to the Tax Code and other laws of the Russian Federation have become effective. The most debatable among them are VAT rate increases and changes in the procedure of pension assignment and payments.
Often we do not fully understand the whole complexity of tax and accounting legislation until we face it in practice. One of such examples is the creation of reserves for vacation pay for tax purposes.