Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 24.11.2005

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 687 of November 18, 2005 on the Endorsement of the Specimens and Description of Blank Passports of Citizens of the Russian Federation, Diplomatic Passport of the Citizen of the Russian Federation and the Service Passport of the Citizen of the Russian Federation Identifying the Citizens of the Russian Federation Outside the Territory of the Russian Federation and Containing Electronic Media

Provides specimens and description of the new generation foreign passports containing biometric information. Blank passports have the size of 88x125 mm and consist of the jacket, flyleaves, plastic insert with in-built microchip and paper pages. The passports have a high degree of protection using special paper, watermarks, metal filament, laser engraving and laser perforation.

The plastic insert contains a microchip with antenna and personal information of the passport holder on the back consisting of two parts: the lower machine-readable quarter of the page consisting of a combination of characters containing the main information of this document; and the upper three quarters of the page - visual zone containing such details as passport number, full name, citizenship and other. Besides, the visual zone contains the photograph of the passport holder implanted by laser engraving. The microchip has a contact-free interface with the memory capacity of at least 64 kilobytes.

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 284 of November 3, 2005 on the Fixing of the Deflator Coefficient for the Purposes of Chapter 26.2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation "Simplified System of Taxation" for the Year 2006

In 2006, the deflator coefficient necessary for the indexing of the maximum amount of incomes restricting opportunities of switching over to and/or application of the simplified system of taxation in compliance with Chapter 26.2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation is fixed in the amount of 1.132.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on November 23, 2005. Reg. No. 7181.

Letter of the Department of the Tax and Customs Tariff Policy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 03-02-07/1-263 of October 13, 2005 on the Penalties Accrued with the Bank Client for the Mistake Made by the Bank

If the payer submits a written application stating that the mistake in the payment document occurred through the fault of the bank, the tax body shall send a notification to the bank requesting the documents confirming or refuting the facts described in the application. If the received documents confirm the payer application, a recalculation of the penalties must be made.

If the tax bodies get documents confirming execution of the duty to pay taxes by the taxpayer according to adopted procedure and removal of the mistake made by the bank, there are no reasons to accrue penalties with the bank client.