Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 24.08.2006

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 513 of August 21, 2006 on the Endorsement of the Method of Distribution of Subventions from the Federal Fund of Compensations Among the Subjects of the Russian Federation to Pay for the Housing and Communal Services to Individual Categories of Citizens, Social Support of Persons Awarded with the Badges of the Honoured Donor of the USSR and the Honoured Donor of Russia and for the State Registration of Acts of Civil Status

According to the budget legislation of the Russian Federation and to execute budget obligations of the subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal formations financed at the expense of subventions from the federal budget, the Federal Fund of Compensations is formed in the federal budget. Subventions from the Federal Fund of Compensations are distributed among the subjects of the Russian Federation according to the method defined by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The endorsed method pertains to distribution of subventions from the Fund among the subjects of the Russian Federation to pay for the housing and communal services to individual categories of citizens, social support of persons awarded with the badges of Honoured Donor of the USSR and the Honoured Donor of Russia and for the state registration of the acts of civil status.

The method contains the formulas of calculation of subventions allocated for the mentioned purposes. Thus, the amount of subventions to cover the benefits of payment for the housing and communal services is calculated proceeding from the population of citizens entitled for the benefits in the subject of the Russian Federation, federal standard of the social norm of the area of dwelling space and the federal standard of the limiting cost of provided housing and communal services per square meter of the total dwelling space per month in the subject of the Russian Federation.

The Decision is entered into force from January 1, 2007.

Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation No. 190 of July 14, 2006 on the Endorsement of the Method of Calculation of the Rent under the Lease Contracts for the State and/or Municipal Immovable Property (Buildings (Parts Thereof), Structures) Available on the Land Plots within the Territories of the Special Economic Zones of Technical Innovation and Tourist Recreational Type and the Method of Calculation of the Rent under the Lease Contracts for the Land Plots Located within the Boundaries of the Special Economic Zones

The methods specify the rules of calculation of the rent under the lease contracts for the state and/or municipal immovable property (land plots, buildings or parts thereof, structures) located within the boundaries of the territories of the special economic zones.

The lease contracts shall be concluded by the management bodies of the special economic zones with legal entities and independent entrepreneurs registered as residents of the special economic zones in the framework of the agreements on industrial production, technical innovation or tourist recreational activities.

The amount of the rent for each object of immovable property is determined independently.

Revision of the amount of the rent may be arranged no sooner than once a year taking into account the forecasted level of inflation envisaged in the law on the budget for the appropriate fiscal year, if the coefficients used to calculate the amount of the rent change, as well as in other cases specified in the legislation.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on August 21, 2006. Reg. No. 8156.

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. ShT-6-07/845@ of August 23, 2006 on the Sending of Information

From August 28, 2006, changes the procedure of registration of information on the circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products in the Joint State Automatic Information System. If the company does not have opportunities to transfer information over telecommunication channels, it may hand over this information to the tax inspection. The fact of the registration is considered to be the presence of information on the circulation of products in the database of the territorial tax body where the organisation is connected. The recipient organisation of the products may enter on charge the received products if they get the confirmation form registered in the territorial tax body from the organisation supplying the products.