The Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation and Rosstandart may develop draft amendments to the All-Russian Classification of Economic Activity (OKVED), which assume that blogging will be equated with economic activity. It was reported on the newspaper’s website “News”.
According to State Duma deputy Yana Lantratova, who proposed such changes in OKVED, there are many professionals and law-abiding people among bloggers, but this activity should be in the legal sphere.
He emphasized that blogging has become a serious income-generating professional activity and that some influencers do not pay taxes for them.
Vladimir Zykov, Director of the Association of Professional Social Network Users and Messengers, noted that this proposal deserves support and that bloggers must work within the law. Now they need to register an individual entrepreneur or self-employed person, and if the bill is passed, the need for this will disappear.
Before that, it became known that the Russian segment of foreign social networks had domestic bloggers after the content monetization feature was turned off. sent increased the number of ad integrations as well as resources for the development of accounts on other platforms.
Before Putin signed draft age law.