For whom they adopt a law on tax cancellation due to sanctions. List of names

On Wednesday, March 22, the State Duma will consider and, most likely, will accept the bill in the final reading, which allows the Russians who have fallen under sanctions not to report on income and not pay taxes in Russia under certain conditions. Despite multiple questions, the author of the amendments, the union deputy Andrei Makarov did not explain who exactly the new law needs. Medusa checked who can use it.

The initiative of the deputy Makarov is as follows: if a person has business or property abroad, and due to sanctions he is forced to be in Russia, he will be given exemption from the standard tax regime. To do this, it must be proved that all reports were submitted in another country by taxes, then in Russia it will not be necessary to report and pay anything. Moreover, the law will have return: if you prove the status of a foreign tax resident, it will be possible to return income tax since 2014. You can read more about how this law was adopted in our previous material .

When the amendments of Andrei Makarov approved in the second reading, he condemned those who hint: “How do we still want to support the oligarchs by freeing them from taxes” (formulation of the deputy himself). The law, according to Makarov, is needed for people who “cannot go to Europe” and become hostages of foreign tax rules. And these unnamed people have no mechanisms to solve problems through negotiations, Makarov is convinced-again, due to sanctions. As a result of those who have “some property, company, income” in Europe, also threatens responsibility for violation of foreign tax laws. In the opinion of the unicorn, the new law will allow it to avoid it.

Neither in the text of the document, nor in Makarov’s statements there are no indications of who exactly can use the norms of the bill. The deputy argues only about the European countries and the duty of Russia to "protect his citizens." But if you study the sanctions lists, it turns out that literally units will be able to use the new law - representatives of large business.

Separatists and officials

The European sanctions list lists 145 people. They can be conditionally divided into several main groups. First of all, 65 representatives of the self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics fell under the sanctions. It is difficult to imagine that they will report on income in Russia or solve problems with property in Europe. The list also has 13 Russian military, which, by law, in any case, tax residents of Russia.

Another significant group in the list is Russian officials and parliamentarians, only 61 people. Since 2013, all of them under Russian law are forbidden to own foreign bank accounts, securities or companies. But they can own foreign real estate, with which you also need to pay tax. Only this real estate should be indicated in the annual declaration.

Of all those who fell under sanctions, only one person - Senator Andrei Klishas indicated such real estate. He has a plot and a house in Switzerland. Klishas told Medusa that the sanctions on him were “not influenced”, since he is not obliged to report to Switzerland for his property. The senator assured that he does not plan to use the new law, has always been a tax resident of Russia and does not intend to change this status.

The head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, also fell under European sanctions, but he, as the head of the state corporation, also reports on the property, and did not indicate any foreign property in the declaration .

Five unknown

Only five people remain, whose foreign assets are not known. Here are their names:

• TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev
• The owner of Stroygazmontazh Arkady Rotenberg
• Head of the Tsargrad group of companies Konstantin Malofeev
• Head of the Board of Directors of the Bank "Russia" Yuri Kovalchuk
• Co -owner of the Bank "Russia" Nikolai Shamalov

Moreover, Rotenberg has already managed to comment on the new law. He said that he pays taxes in Russia and does not intend to become a tax resident of other countries. Kovalchuk also stated that in Europe and the USA he does not have "dependence on any sanctions imposed." Medusa failed to get comments by Kiselev, Malofeev and Shamalov.

Timchenko and US sanctions

Deputy Andrei Makarov referred only to European rules when he spoke about his amendments. He did not specify whether the tax problems are created by the US sanctions. But at least one person from the American sanctions list claimed that the sanctions were preventing him from leaving Russia. This is the former owner of the Gunvor oil oilter and the founder of Volga Group Gennady Timchenko.

He himself announced in 2013 that he was a tax resident of Switzerland and does not want to begin to declare income in Russia. Previously, the billionaire said that he chose Switzerland, because it is more convenient to pay taxes there than in Finland. He concluded an agreement with the Swiss tax authorities to pay annually a fixed amount that does not depend on his actual income. Timchenko is the only one about whom it is reliably known that he can take advantage of the new law in the sense that was publicly announced in the Duma.

In addition to Timchenko, in American sanctions lists , there are 66 more people against whom there are no sanctions in the EU. Of these, 36 are entrepreneurs and private individuals whose property is not abroad of open data. Whether they avoid traveling abroad is unknown. For example, the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, did not stop going to other countries after the commissioning of American sanctions.

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