Don't touch politics

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development are preparing a bill to exempt non-profit organizations from income tax, Kommersant wrote on Monday. According to the Tax Code, NPOs are currently exempt from income tax, but only on income in the form of charitable contributions and budget revenues. At the same time, NPOs pay 24 percent income tax on income from the provision of services. According to the new law, this type of activity will also be subject to preferential taxation, up to complete tax exemption. But such “happiness” does not await everyone - as you might guess, all “undesirable” NGOs will be excluded from the list. This is tentatively formulated as follows: the new law will apply only to those organizations that can guarantee that they will not “engage in political and commercial activities.” With commercial everything is clear - the name itself says: “non-profit public organization”, but under “political” anything can fall: any human rights activity, even some kind of environmental rally against sellers of fur coats or, say, the activities of Transneft, if desired can be called a political action.