Residents of border areas of the Kursk region were granted a tax deferment

The Russian government has approved a decision to defer the payment of a number of taxes for residents of the Kursk region living in border areas. They will be able to defer payment of transport and land taxes, as well as property tax for individuals. Interfax reports this.

The decision concerns taxes that are due in 2024. Deferment allows you to postpone payment until December 1, 2025. The measure applies to those whose place of residence as of August 1, 2024 was in the border areas of the Kursk region or in settlements of the region where the counter-terrorism operation (CTO) regime was introduced. In this case, a deferment is provided only to those for whom a decision was made to resettle from these territories.

The situation in the Kursk region remains tense. On November 6, residents of the Bolshesoldatsky district took to the central square in Kursk, declaring that their houses had been destroyed, despite assurances from officials that there had been no shelling. In addition, according to Vestka, 510 residents of the Glushkovsky district signed an appeal to Vladimir Putin with a request to include them in the resettlement program with the issuance of state housing certificates (GZHS). Thus, the total number of districts in the region whose residents are demanding a solution to the housing issue has reached four.

The problems stem from the fact that certificates are provided only to those who lived in the five-kilometer border zone. Meanwhile, according to the authors of the appeal, “many houses of civilians were completely destroyed by artillery fire” throughout the region, and the surviving houses are uninhabitable.

In response to the appeals, the head of the region, Alexey Smirnov, promised to compensate the cost of rent to residents of border areas who were forced to leave their homes. Funds will be allocated monthly, starting from the moment the application is submitted to the MFC or the Social Payments Center.

Meanwhile, residents of other districts, such as Korenevsky and Sudzhansky, also turned to the Russian President en masse. IDPs from the Sudzhansky district even brought a collective letter to Moscow to the Presidential Administration. This happened after a statement by the regional Ministry of Construction that the issuance of civil housing construction could cause an “outflow of the working population” from the region.

Since the beginning of August, battles with the Ukrainian Armed Forces have continued in the Kursk region. Acting Governor Alexey Smirnov reported to Vladimir Putin that the fate of more than 2 thousand residents remains unknown, since they are located on territory controlled by the Ukrainian military. The Kursk region became the first region of Russia since World War II where part of the territory came under the control of foreign armed forces.