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Russian troops in Ukraine exempted from income
tax
Russian authorities have announced that soldiers and
state employees deployed in Ukraine will be exempt from income tax, in the
latest effort to encourage support for its military operation there.
Agence
France-Presse reported that the new measure concerned all those fighting in the
four Ukrainian territories Russia has declared as its own, although it does not
completely control them: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Kremlin
spokesperson Dmitri Peskov cited an exemption contained in an anti-corruption
law, which the Russian authorities published the details of on Thursday
evening.
Soldiers,
police, members of the security services and other state employees serving in
the four regions no longer had to supply information on “their income, their expenditure,
their assets”, the decree said.
The decree
also granted them the right to receive “rewards and gifts” if they were of “a
humanitarian character” and received as part of the military operation in
Ukraine.
It applies
to the partners and children of those serving, and is back-dated to February 24
2022 – the date Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Kremlin
has rolled out a series of incentives for Russians to fight in Ukraine,
offering cash incentives, banking and property facilities and promising
financial aid to families in the case of the death or injury of loved ones.
In Russia,
soldiers and senior officials close to the country’s military-industrial
complex are regularly convicted in corruption cases in which large sums of
money have been embezzled.
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