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Shop demolition will not affect Russia’s place in Doing Business rating

The World Bank will not be able to take into account the incident concerning mass demolition of trade pavilions and kiosks in Moscow in its Doing Business 2017 rating, as its authors do not have such indicators... Read more
29.02.2016

Lawyers challenge right of courts to limit fees in Constitutional Court

Affiliate company of Shell oil company appealed against judicial practice that decreases the price of legal services payable by the losing party, to the Constitutional Court of Russia. At the beginning of the year the Supreme Court fixed a “reasonable” amount of legal expenses, but the company thinks that the compensation should take into account market prices, rather than “lowest practicable” prices for services... Lawyer of arbitration and litigation practice of YUST Law Firm Dmitry Smolnikov told Pravo.ru portal, that... Read more
26.02.2016

The utility companies impose interest on the debts of the business

Mikhail Chugunov, Advocate of the Law Firm “YUST”, commented for the Izvestia newspaper on the news that the business community has requested the Ministers to deal with the newly-arisen practice to exact interest for traditional postponement of utility bill payments
26.02.2016

Lawyers argue about new system of Federal Tax Service to monitor tax flow

The Federal Tax Service is planning to launch an information system “Tax-3” based on structures of the ministry of Finance, by 2018. It will provide the possibility for full tax administration of individuals and companies, as well as a citizen identification system alternative to civil registry - “uniform ID”... Read more
26.02.2016

Creditors to be divided into classes

The Ministry for Economic Development agreed for a serious change of amendments to the law “On insolvency (bankruptcy)” published in spring 2015, that were subject to harsh criticism on the part of business and banking community. The new version of the bill provides, among other things... Read more
25.02.2016

Part of income from tobacco excises proposed to stay in regional budgets

Lawyer of YUST Law Firm Nikita Tolkachev  discussed with :Russian Newspaper” the amendments redistributing tax income from tobacco product excises between the federal and regional budgets. Read more
23.02.2016

General Prosecutor Office considers capital repair fees partly unconstitutional

The Constitutional Court received reviews from a number of ministries and agencies of the complaint brought by a group of State Duma deputies, who challenged constitutionality of fees for capital repair of apartment blocks... Read more
20.02.2016

Changes to Tax Code concerning alcohol trade increase competition between small and large businesses

The Ministry of Industry and Trade took up elaboration of draft amendments to the tax Code of Russia that will change the procedure of obtaining license for retail trade of alcohol. It concerns a differentiated rate of state duty: it will depend on the number and location of trade outlets... Read more
19.02.2016

A company leaving the market is incomparably worse than increase of prices to its products

In its letter to the Russian government, the Federal Antimonopoly service proposes to increase prices of more than 300 cheap medications from the list of vital ones. Domestic producers already discontinued production of 197 medications with the price of less than 50 rubles, and 160 more items from the list may disappear from the counters. The ministry thinks that increasing prices by 5 rubles may become a solution. Adviser of YUST Law Firm, member of the expert council under the FAS of Russia Dmitry Seregin told Regnum... Read more
18.02.2016

Lawyer for the client: clear and to the point

According to Bryan Garner, head of American training company LawProse, a lawyer is first of all judged by his texts. Adviser of YUST Law Firm Dmitry Seregin discussed ways of improving legal texts with Pravo.ru portal. The expert gave his advice about making the points clear for everyone... Read more
17.02.2016