Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of RF Government ordered to bring to the State Duma a bill preventing evasion of tax registration by foreigners and stateless persons working in Russia, RIA Novosti says.
The documents elaborated by the Federal Immigration Service introduces amendments into the Act “On Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in RF and other legal acts.
The bill suggests a quicker tax registration of foreigners.
If a foreign citizen needs to execute a work permit or get a license in a short time, there will be a special procedure of interaction between the Federal Immigration Service of Russia and Federal Tax Service.
A foreign citizen who is going to work in the Russian Federation must receive a tax registration within 3 days.
According to the proposed amendments:
- In the course of execution of a work permit or license for a foreign citizen, an immigration government agency or its local body, which reviews the documents, according to the interaction procedure should check the fact of tax registration in the tax authority overseeing this foreign citizen. If a foreign citizen does not have a Taxpayer Identification Number, the tax body gives him tax registration.
- The obligation by the employer or contractor to notify the Federal Immigration Service about tax registration of a highly qualified specialist, envisaged by p. 16 of Article 13.2 of the Federal Law N0.115-FZ , loses its legal force.
- In order to extend a work permit for a highly qualified specialist, the employer or contractor shall not be able to submit information on his tax registration.
Thus, a foreign citizen will have to present the documents to the immigration authority for execution of a work permit or a license, and get a Taxpayer Identification Number, which will become the principal instrument of immigrants identification in Russia.