Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 13.06.2002

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 518 of May 29, 2002 on the Amendments to the List of Information Qualified as State Secret Endorsed by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1203 of November 30, 1995

The list of information qualified as state secret includes information handled by the Committee for Military and Technical Cooperation with Foreign States of Russia. Such information, in particular, includes information on foreign policy and foreign trade activities, as well as information disclosing the plans of the state defence order, volumes of armaments supplies and information on unsettled payments of the Russian Federation with foreign states.

Order of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. BG-3-23/259 of May 20, 2002 on the Endorsement of the Instructions on the Filling Out of the Forms of Applications of a Foreign Organization to Return the Amounts of Taxes from Sources in the Russian Federation

Endorses the Instructions on the filling out of the forms of applications of a foreign organization to return the amounts of taxes collected from incomes from sources in the Russian Federation (other than dividends and interest) (Form 1011DT(2002)) and collected from dividends and interest from sources in the Russian Federation (Form 1012DT(2002)).
As appendices to the Instructions, provides the tables with the codes of the types of incomes and types of investments used to fill out the mentioned applications.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on June 5, 2002. Reg. No. 3501.

Letter of the Ministry of Taxation of the Russian Federation No. VG-6-03/638@ of April 29, 2002 on the Sales Tax

Explains the procedure of application of Chapter 27 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation "The Sales Tax". Specifies, in particular, that the sale of commodities to independent entrepreneurs for cash is recognized as an object of taxation for the sales tax. Operations involving the sale of commodities (works, services) in cases when such sale is effected by way of transfer of monetary resources from accounts in the banks at the orders of natural persons and independent entrepreneurs are not subject to the sales tax. Operations involving the handing out of earnings in kind are not being the object of taxation for the sales tax. The list of operations exempted from the sales tax envisaged in Article 350 of the Code is exhaustive and obligatory for application on the territory of all subjects of the Russian Federation.