The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications proposed to compensate for the federal budget's expenses for supporting the IT industry, which Vladimir Putin announced the day before (reducing the income tax rate from 20% to 3%, insurance premium rates from 14% to 7.6%), by returning VAT on the sale of software since January 2021, writes , citing a ministry document that the editors have.

Representatives of two dozen companies that own commercial real estate sent a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asking them not to increase the cadastral value until 2024. This will help curb the growth of real estate tax, which is calculated on the basis of the cadastre, Kommersant writes, which has a copy of the letter.

The IMF has significantly lowered its forecast for a recession and recovery of the global economy against the background of the coronavirus, according to Bloomberg. The new forecast assumes a 4.9% fall in GDP by the end of 2020, despite the fact that in April the fund predicted a 3% fall, which would already be the worst indicator since the Great Depression. The forecast for GDP growth in 2021 has also deteriorated: now the IMF expects growth of 5.4%, not 5.8%.

Yandex expects a net loss of up to 4.5 billion rubles and admits a decrease in revenue in the second quarter, follows from the company's published forecast for financial results. According to a preliminary forecast, Yandex NV (this is the parent structure for Yandex and other companies of the group) will receive a net loss of 3 to 4.5 billion rubles in the second quarter against a net profit of 3.4 billion rubles in 2018.

The first "golden passport" of Montenegro was received by a Russian citizen, RBC reports with reference to the international consulting company Henley & Partners. In total, several applications were approved under the Montenegrin citizenship by investment program, but passports were not issued due to the borders being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. As soon as they were opened, the Russian was the first to get to Montenegro, pass biometric data and get a passport, the company clarifies.

The obvious of employees of large state and some private enterprises for voting on amendments to the Constitution will be monitored using a special information system, Medusa found out. For example, “Russian Post”, “Severstal”, “Rostec”, “Rostelecom”, Russian Railways, Lukoil and AFK Systems are connected to the demo version of this system. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

The European Union is preparing to open borders from July 1 to enter citizens of other countries, but leaders did not get into the list of those infected with coronavirus - the USA, Brazil and Russia, writes The New York Times. To compile a list, where, for example, China, data on the sick have been used in the last 14 days. The list will be reviewed once every two weeks. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

The database with several million users of the messenger at one of the forums of Darknet was discovered by the Durov code. The database contains information about the phone numbers and nicknames of users, the editors of the publication found in it the numbers and nicknames of its employees. Telegram confirmed the existence of such a base and said that 30% of the accounts that fell into it belong to users from Russia.

Russia is preparing to break an agreement with Malta to avoid double taxation, writes RBC. Previously, Cyprus received the same warning from Moscow. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

The celebration of May 9 this year had to be quarantine, and it was decided to spend the parade in honor of the 75th anniversary of Victory two weeks after removing hard quarantine in Moscow. This was the reason for the heads of some states to abandon the visit. But the authorities still did not save at the celebrations. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!