On December 7, 2023, an annual awards ceremony for the leaders of the Pravo.Ru-300 Legal Ranking—the Oscar of the legal world—was held in Moscow. This research is the most authoritative among Russian rankings of law firms.

On December 4, 2023, Rossiyskaya Gazeta released a new annual ranking of lawyers for the first time. A feature of this ranking is that participating in it does not involve filling out any standard questionnaires. Instead, law firms are invited to provide, in any convenient format, information about their key lawyers and the achievements that they consider significant.

Please be informed that on September 29, 2023, a draft law was introduced to the Russian parliament, exempting from withholding tax in Russia certain types of income derived by foreign entities that are residents of the states, with which Russia has suspended a double tax treaty (DTT).

Commerce (AHK Russland) held its annual CFO conference in Saint Petersburg. The event saw over 150 attendees offline and was streamed online.Nadezhda Danilenko made a presentation on one of today’s most topical tax-related subjects—the suspension of double tax treaties (DTTs).

On September 19, 2023, the Taxes and Finance Committee of the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI France Russie) held a meeting in Moscow. Julia Talagaeva, Senior Associate at Forte Tax & Law, presented an overview of the new Federal Law No. 470-FZ of August 4, 2023.

Published on July 31, 2023, Law No. 389-FZ has introduced extensive changes to the Russian Tax Code. Forte Tax & Law specialists have played an active role in preparing the Law.

On August 8th, 2023, the Russian President issued Decree No. 585, which suspends key provisions of several double tax treaties. Below, you will find comprehensive details about the suspended agreements and their implications.

We would like to inform you that the draft law increasing fines for employers for failure to perform military registration duties has been adopted in the form that we discussed in our previous alert and will take effect October 1, 2023.

The Russian State Duma is now considering amendments to the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses. The amendments provide for a significant increase in the fines for failure to perform the military registration duties.

On July 12, 2023, the new minutes of a meeting of the Russian Government Commission regarding the rules for obtaining authorizations for closing transactions in interests or shares and paying dividends were published on the website of the Russian Ministry of Finance.