Foreign producers of software (SW) can get in Russia under the new sales tax. For this purpose, a special fund will be established.
According to the newspaper “Vedomosti”, the Ministry of Communications wants to support domestic software developers at the expense of a special fund to will be credited up to 10% of sales in the Russian software licenses both Russian and foreign developers. In this case, the representative of the Ministry of Communications Catherine Osadchaya argues that nothing in the ministry of this initiative do not know.
Fund universal software will work like acting now the universal service, which lists all the operators 1.2% of its revenue. His term may be limited to ten years. Operator planned to fund the state company with an innovative profile of activity.
The fund is planned to finance the development of domestic software – before the Russian developers have set the task to create about a dozen types of domestic competitive software: operating systems for PCs, servers and mobile devices, office suite, the system database management, system design and system management.
According to the publication, it is assumed that to obtain subsidies from software company will have to pass a blocking state of its shares (25% plus 1 share) . At the same time subsidize wages offered exclusively software developers.
It is also planned to provide a mechanism for repayment of funds due to which funds withheld from the sale of Russian licensed software will be returned to its developers.
It should be noted that the volume of Russian software market in 2013 was 4 9 billion, about 80% of which occur in foreign software. Thus, the amount of revenue to the new fund could be around $ 490 million a year. Given refund Russian producers of software of this money to subsidize domestic software developers can be sent to about 390 million dollars.
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