Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 15.09.2005

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 559 of September 13, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Rates of Import Customs Duties for Raw Materials for Making Detergents

Prolongs on the unlimited basis the rates of the import customs duties for raw materials for making detergents earlier introduced by the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 633 of November 15, 2004 for 9 months. The mentioned rates amount to 5% of the customs cost for the water solution with the content of alkylethoxisulphates of 30% by weight or more, but not more than 60% by weight, and 15% for other.

The Decision is entered into force from September 18, 2005.

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 104n of August 11, 2005 on the Criteria for Qualifying Commodities As Printed Items Protected against Forgery Including the Blank Securities

Protected against forgery are considered to be printed items featuring at lest two of the listed elements of protection, for example, watermark, security fibres, security thread, ultraviolet and special printing and other.

Import of such products to the Russian Federation is arranged on the basis of a single license issued by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on September 9, 2005. Reg. No. 6993.

Regulation on the Organisation of Work with Taxpayers, Payers of Fees, Insurance Contributions for Obligatory Pension Insurance and Tax Agents (Endorsed by the Order of the Federal Tax Service No. SAE-3-01/444 of September 9, 2005)

Defines the taxpayer reception procedure, procedure of accepting, registration and issue of the documents by taxpayer departments. Specifies the procedure of verifying taxpayer estimates and particulars of its application, informing taxpayers of the condition of payments of taxes, fees and contributions.

To provide to taxpayers information on the name and position of the employee of the taxpayer department, the employees of taxpayer departments are provided with personal identification cards or table plates.

The Regulation specifies the requirements to taxpayer reception rooms (operation halls). In particular, the stands should be used to place sample requests (letters, applications), as well as information to be indicated by the taxpayer in the request (letter, application). It is recommended to install a computer in the inspection with reference legal systems.

The Regulation defines the procedure to provide taxpayer access to software for drawing up tax declarations, accounting reports and other documents in the electronic form used to calculate and pay the taxes, fees and other obligatory payments to the budget.