The government plans at the legislative level to exempt IT companies from scheduled inspections by Rospotrebnadzor, fire supervision, labor inspections, the Social Insurance Fund and other organizations. This proposal was included by the Ministry of Digital Development in the second package of support for the IT industry in the Russian Federation. This information was published on the Vedomosti news portal.
The document has already been submitted to Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for Digital Economy and Innovation. The press service of the Deputy Prime Minister noted that exemption from scheduled inspections will help create more comfortable working conditions for an IT company. In addition, the government plans to introduce new preferential rates to improve the situation in the technology industry.
Vedomosti emphasized that if the second package is approved in the near future, then by the autumn session of the State Duma a bill on the abolition of inspections will be prepared. In this case, the responsible statements will be the Ministry of Finance, the Federal Tax Service, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development. The government did not provide information on how long the right to defer audits would be introduced for IT companies.
It is worth noting that not only “small” representatives of the IT industry, but also large organizations suffer from scheduled inspections. For example, the Krok company, one of the leaders of the Russian information technology market, faces inspections at least once a year. Lyubov Trunina, director of administrative and personnel issues and social policy of the firm, said that scheduled inspections negatively affect the development of the IT sector. They lead to undesirable costs, increased administrative burden and general “chaos” among employees.
It is worth noting that for absolutely any IT company, scheduled inspections incur additional costs, since it is necessary to receive answers to requests from supervisory authorities and draw up documentation. And given the fact that regulations do not keep pace with the development of technology, IT organizations are at risk: there may be penalties or even “blocking” by the government. Therefore, the bill on the exemption of the IT industry from scheduled inspections will help solve the above problems.
Recall that the first package of support for the IT industry from the Ministry of Digital Science included, to a greater extent, tax incentives: a decrease in social contributions to 7.6% (it was 14%), a reduction in income tax to 3% (it was 20%) and the elimination of the VAT rate.
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