A draft law has been published providing that the income of foreigners working in Russia shall be taxed with 13% personal income tax, regardless of their tax residency.<\/p>\n
Currently, foreign employees normally pay 30% personal income tax, and the 13% personal income tax applies to:<\/p>\n
– Russian tax residents (Russian and foreign citizens staying in Russia more than 183 days a year); If the draft law will pass, Russian residents and non-residents will enjoy personal income tax at the rate of 13%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A draft law has been published providing that the income of foreigners working in Russia shall be taxed with 13% personal income tax, regardless of their tax residency. Currently, foreign employees normally pay 30% personal income tax, and the 13% personal income tax applies to: – Russian tax residents (Russian and foreign citizens staying in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlegal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– foreign employees having the status of Highly Qualified Specialists (please read more about HQS here<\/a> );
\n– citizens of some former Soviet countries.<\/p>\n