Articles and Publications

2 February 2018

At the end of 2017, a number of amendments to the Tax Code (Federal Law 340-FZ of November 27 2017) came into force which significantly increased the scope of information and documents that Russian divisions of some international companies must submit to the tax authorities. Through the amendments, Paragraph 13 of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Action Plan concerning the provision of country-b y-country reporting was implemented into national tax legislation.

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29 January 2018

It seems that Britney Spears, when she recorded a phonogram of the song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll never thought that one day she would be protected by Russian court.

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19 December 2017

DataGuidance confirmed, on 18 December 2017, with Sergey Medvedev and Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyers at Gorodissky and Partners, that, on 15 December 2017, the Council of the Federation passed Draft Law No.184271-7 on Amendments to the Code on Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation ('the Draft Law').

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12 December 2017

DataGuidance confirmed, on 12 December 2017, with Sergey Medvedev, Senior Lawyer at Gorodissky and Partners, that the regional offices of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications ('Roskomnadzor') for the Central Federal District, the Siberian Federal District and the Urals Federal District had released their inspection plans for 2018 ('the Inspection Plans').

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12 December 2017

Good faith and fair dealing are the main principles of Russia's civil-law system and are enforced by Russian courts in all disputes. Franchising is not an exception.

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