The State Duma recommended to take in the first reading "tax on Google" for Russian and foreign IT companies
The State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications on Tuesday, February 16, recommended adopting in the first reading VAT amendments for Russian and foreign IT companies.
If amendments are made to the legislation, IT companies providing electronic services in our country will have to pay VAT from January 1, 2017.
In the meantime, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy offers to join the budget and tax committee in the discussion of the issue.
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RBC recalls that at the end of December, the bill was supported by the government “subject to revision, taking into account the comments made.” This was stated in a published review, which was signed by the head of the government apparatus, deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko.
The authors of the amendments are the deputies Andrei Lugovoy (LDPR) and Vladimir Parahin (“Fair Russia”). The interlocutor of RBC, close to the leadership of the State Duma, argued that the project has high chances of becoming law.
In the current version of the document are 12 types of electronic services, which, according to the idea of ​​deputies, should be subject to VAT, writes RBC:
Now, foreign IT companies do not pay VAT, as well as those Russian companies that sell software licenses for personal computers and databases: Apple Store , Google Play , Russian Parallels companies, Kaspersky Lab and others.
The tax on profits of transnational corporations, received in various countries of the world, is called “Google tax”. This corporation is a textbook example of tax evasion.
Using a simple scheme , Google in Ireland received double savings on corporate taxes. And this company is far from the only one - since 2008, when Ireland introduced reforms in response to the growing economic crisis in the country, its corporate income rate attracted large IT corporations, including Apple , Facebook , Blizzard , Amazon and Microsoft , as well as transnational giants in traditional industries.
In late January, "Megamind" wrote that the European Commission is going to put an end to the practice of corporations using different tax zones for tax evasion. On January 27 in Paris, the governments of 31 countries signed an agreement aimed at increasing the transparency of corporate taxes in Europe.
“I hope that in the end we will find ourselves in a situation where companies pay taxes in the countries where they earn money,” said EU Competition Commissioner Margret Vestager.
If amendments are made to the legislation, IT companies providing electronic services in our country will have to pay VAT from January 1, 2017.
In the meantime, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy offers to join the budget and tax committee in the discussion of the issue.
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RBC recalls that at the end of December, the bill was supported by the government “subject to revision, taking into account the comments made.” This was stated in a published review, which was signed by the head of the government apparatus, deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko.
The authors of the amendments are the deputies Andrei Lugovoy (LDPR) and Vladimir Parahin (“Fair Russia”). The interlocutor of RBC, close to the leadership of the State Duma, argued that the project has high chances of becoming law.
In the current version of the document are 12 types of electronic services, which, according to the idea of ​​deputies, should be subject to VAT, writes RBC:
sales of digital content, digital software, hosting, domain registration, voice services over the Internet, information storage and processing, broadcast TV and radio channels, remote system administration services and remote software support, search systems, advertising and other services to establish contacts and (or) transactions between sellers and buyers.
Now, foreign IT companies do not pay VAT, as well as those Russian companies that sell software licenses for personal computers and databases: Apple Store , Google Play , Russian Parallels companies, Kaspersky Lab and others.
The tax on profits of transnational corporations, received in various countries of the world, is called “Google tax”. This corporation is a textbook example of tax evasion.
Using a simple scheme , Google in Ireland received double savings on corporate taxes. And this company is far from the only one - since 2008, when Ireland introduced reforms in response to the growing economic crisis in the country, its corporate income rate attracted large IT corporations, including Apple , Facebook , Blizzard , Amazon and Microsoft , as well as transnational giants in traditional industries.
In late January, "Megamind" wrote that the European Commission is going to put an end to the practice of corporations using different tax zones for tax evasion. On January 27 in Paris, the governments of 31 countries signed an agreement aimed at increasing the transparency of corporate taxes in Europe.
“I hope that in the end we will find ourselves in a situation where companies pay taxes in the countries where they earn money,” said EU Competition Commissioner Margret Vestager.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/298710/
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