At the present time plans for deoffshorization of Russian economy are actively carrying out. Despite the complexity of this work, the experts of the Information Agency Credinform mark the positive points of adoption of laws in this field, for example, for information market.

Thus on 24 November 2014 the President of the Russian Federation signed the Federal act "On Amendments to Parts One and Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation (Regarding the Taxation of the Profit of Controlled Foreign Companies and the Income of Foreign Organizations)". According to the act, the Russian owners (individuals and legal entities) are obligated to provide the notifications about participation in foreign companies to the tax authorities.

Earlier, in August 2014 the Head of the Government signed the decision which approves the typical agreement on the exchange of the information on tax matters between Russia and foreign countries. In particular it is stated that foreign jurisdiction which signed the agreement is obliged to provide the following information: shareholders of offshore companies, shareholders and trusts/funds beneficiaries, and also information available for nominees and offshore banks.

At the same time the draft federal law «On Amendments to Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation» is placed for studying in mass media. In this project it is proposed to obligate legal entities to disclose information about beneficiaries. According to the draft federal law the information about beneficiaries of the legal entity should be disclosed in the financial statements.

In spite that the authorities have refused rather challenged decision on the introduction of sales tax, business and citizens will even so have to experience the increase of the level of tax burden.

On the 21th of November the State Duma has passed the law, which allows the introduction of sales charges in three cities of federal importance since the 1st of July 2015, i.e. in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and Sevastopol. Sales charges in municipal units, not being a part of these cities, can be introduced only after adoption of relevant federal law.

The sale tax will be collected quarterly. The new tax will be paid by enterprises and individual entrepreneurs engaged in stationary and non-stationary trading, sale from stock, as well as in organization of retail markets at the rate of not more than 550 RUB per 1 sq. m of the area of such market (with annual indexation by a deflator coefficient).

The entrepreneurs, using patent system of taxation, and agricultural single tax payers are exempted from sale tax.

Besides that, the bill provides for the increase since 2016 of the limiting date of real estate possession from three up to five years, proceeds from whose sale are exempted from personal income tax.

A three year period is preserved for real estate, which is propagated or transferred by gift agreements from family members or close relatives, privatized, transferred by a life estate agreement. The minimum taxable income by real estate sale is prescribed at the rate of cadastral value (if it is determined) multiplied by decreasing coefficient 0,7.

By the law of the subject of the RF the minimum limiting date of real estate possession and decreasing coefficient value can be reduced to 0. These standards will be extended to real estate transactions, which will be closed by citizens after the 1st of January 2016.