Tax Free system launched in some Russian airports
On February 12, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a document on the introduction of a trial tax free system in four regions of the Russian Federation. It will be able to use tourists who leave the Russian Federation through the airports of the Krasnodar Territory, Moscow and Moscow region and St. Petersburg, according to Dmitry Medvedev - there is " <...> the most powerful tourist flow."
In November 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Trade listed stores with the possibility of selling products under the tax free scheme. The system of tax deductions will operate in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Veliky Novgorod, Kaliningrad and Vladivostok. In Moscow, trade under this scheme will be held in the shopping center Petrovsky Passage, TSUM, "Seasons", the Central Children's Store on Lubyanka, Metropolis shopping center. In St. Petersburg – in the “House of Leningrad Trade”. In Sochi, at the Marine Station.
In a test version of the tax free earned in October, currently the innovation is available in a limited number of stores. The Ministry of Finance said that organizations without outstanding debts on accrued amounts of taxes, penalties and fines will participate in the trial project tax free. The amount of their revenue should exceed 100 million rubles a year.