Plenipotentiary Representative of the IRI Council, Director of the RAEC

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Sergey Plugotarenko
Recalling the main events that set the format for the dialogue between the Internet industry and the state in the following years, one involuntarily focuses on three accents: RIW 2014, Vyacheslav Volodin, IRI
The outcome of the forum was a list of instructions from the President of the Russian Federation, for the implementation of which a Working Group was created in the Presidential Administration under the aide saudi arabia whatsapp number list of the President of the Russian Federation Igor Shchegolev.

Benefits for IT

In particular, the Ministry of Finance of Russia, the Ministry of Communications of Russia, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, together with the IRI, were to submit proposals for extending the reduced rates of insurance premiums for domestic companies operating in the field of information technology.

In this case, domestic companies will be able to pay insurance premiums in the amount of 14% in 2017-2023, instead of 30%. Organizations will contribute 2% of their employees' salaries to the Social Insurance Fund for compulsory social insurance in case of temporary disability and in connection with maternity, 8% to the Pension Fund for pension insurance, and 4% to the Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund for medical insurance.

On October 18, at the Delovaya Rossiya congress, the Head of the IRI IT+Sovereignty Committee, Senior Vice President of Acronis Stanislav Protasov proposed not only to extend the benefits, but also to extend them to all programmers. In response, the president stated that the list of such companies could well be expanded in the future.

As part of his annual address to the Federal Assembly on December 1, Vladimir Putin noted that in 2010, tax deductions from IT industry enterprises amounted to about 28 billion rubles, and in 2012 this figure grew to 54 billion, while the state's lost revenue, taking into account tax breaks for the industry, amounted to 16 billion rubles.

On December 12, the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes approved an amendment to the Tax Code on extending benefits for insurance premiums, and on December 19, the Government Commission on Legislative Activity approved an extension of the preferential tariff for IT companies on contributions to the Pension Fund; it should remain at 8%.