Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 9.02.2005

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. SAE-3-05/173@ of December 27, 2004 on the Form of the Tax Notification of the Transfer of Advance Payments for the Uniform Social Tax

Endorses the form of the tax notification of the transfer of advance payments for the uniform social tax.

Advance payments are transferred by the tax payer on the basis of the tax notifications for January-June - no later than July 15 of the current year in the amount of ? of the annual amount of advance payments, for July-September - no later than October 15 of the current year in the amount of ? of the annual amount of advance payments, for October-December - no later than January 15 of the subsequent year in the amount of ? of the annual amount of advance payments.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 7, 2005. Reg. No. 6304.

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. SAE-3-09/123@ of November 23, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Specimen of the Blank Certificate

Endorses the specimen of the blank certificates of the state registration confirming the fact of entry of appropriate record in the uniform state registers of legal entities and independent entrepreneurs.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 7, 2005. Reg. No. 6302.

Order of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Control over Circulation of Narcotics No. 402 of December 29, 2004 on the Amendments to the Order of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Control over Circulation of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances No. 122 of April 19, 2004

The amount of the monthly supplement for the complexity, stressful nature and special regime of service paid out to employees of the bodies in charger of control over circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is increased from 70% to 120% of the salary for the occupied position.

The supplement is fixed on a differentiated basis depending on the composition of employees and service locale for a certain period of time - one year as a rule.

The supplement shall be paid out from January 1, 2005.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 7, 2005. Reg. No. 6301.

Order of the Federal Customs Service No. 1 of January 11, 2005 on the Monthly Supplement Paid out to the Employees of the Customs Bodies of the Russian Federation for the Complexity, Stressful Nature and Special Regime of Service

From January 1, 2005, employees of the customs bodies shall get the monthly supplement for the complexity, stressful nature and special regime of service in the amount of 120% of the salary for the occupied position. The monthly supplement is introduced for the employees of the customs bodies whose service duties involve tasks requiring a high level of professional training or imply a stressful special regime of service, depending on the composition of employees and service locale. The supplement is not paid out to employees in the child-care leave before they reach 3 years of age, as well as to those undergoing service in the representations of the Customs Service of the Russian Federation abroad.

The Order is entered into force from January 1, 2005.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 7, 2005. Reg. No. 6298.

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 1540-U of December 29, 2004 on the Amendments to the Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 1465-U of June 29, 2004 on the Reservation Requirements When Entering Monetary Resources on the Special Bank Accounts and When Writing off of Monetary Resources from the Special Bank Accounts

The amendments significantly reduce the amounts of reservation in individual currency operations on the special bank accounts. In particular, when entering monetary resources on the special bank account of a resident in a foreign currency "R1", the reserved amount makes 2% (earlier, 3%) of the amount of entered monetary resources for the period of 365 calendar days. When writing off monetary resources from the special bank account of the resident in a foreign currency "R2", the reserved amount makes 25% (earlier, 50%) of the amount of written off monetary resources for the period of 15 calendar days.

The amendments do not change the periods of reservation.

The Direction is entered into force 10 days after the day of its official publication in the Herald of the Bank of Russia.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 3, 2005. Reg. No. 6294.

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation and the Administration of the Kaliningrad Province Nos. I-ASh, 01-1/2 of January 8, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Procedure of Qualifying Individual Cars as Originating in the Special Economic Zone of the Kaliningrad Province

Originating in the Special Economic Zone of the Kaliningrad Province are considered to be the cars of the BMW Series 7 having undergone enough processing on the specially created production facilities by Russian legal entities and their branches registered on the territory of the mentioned zone.

The commodity is considered to be processed enough if there is a change of the classification code of commodities according to the Foreign Trade Commodity Nomenclature at the level of any of the first four digits as a result of processing or product production, as well as if the added value of processing makes at least 30%.

The Order lists operations failing to meet the enough processing criteria.

The document confirming the cars origin in the Special Economic Zone is the certificate issued by the Kaliningrad Chamber of Commerce and Industry drawn up according to the specified form.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 1, 2005. Reg. No. 6292.

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 07-03-01/79/SSh of February 2, 2005

From January 1, 2005, the payment for the issue of the copy of the auditor qualification certificate is replaced with the payment of the state duty for the issue of the copy of the auditor qualification certificate because of its loss in the amount of Rbl 400.

The state duty for the actions committed by the Ministry of Finance of Russia at auditor certification after January 1, 2005 is paid in the following amounts:

- for the issue of the auditor qualification certificate - Rbl 400;

- for the entry of changes in the auditor qualification certificate because of the change of the auditor name - Rbl 100.

The Letter provides bank requisites for the payment of the above state duty as incomes in the federal budget.

The state duty is not paid for the issue of the auditor qualification certificate by the persons included in the Order of the Ministry of Finance of Russia on the issue of the auditor qualification certificate before January 1, 2005 who did not yet receive it. The state duty is not collected also when the auditor qualification certificate is issued according to exchange procedure.