Russia seeks benefits for self-employed refugees from Donbass and Ukraine

State Duma Deputy Vasily Vlasov sent an appeal to the head of the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation Anton Kotyakov, in which he proposed to allow refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and regions of Ukraine to work as self-employed, regardless of citizenship, reports RT.

In his application, he pointed out that, according to the legislation, citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan) have the opportunity to engage in activities on their own. Employees pay 4% and 6% tax, respectively, when providing services to natural persons and legal entities.

At the same time, as the parliamentarian noted, after the evacuation from the DPR and LPR and the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Russia. Some do not have Russian citizenship. Therefore, the legislator noted that such persons do not have the opportunity to engage in activities as self-employed.

In this context, I ask you to consider the possibility of granting the right to self-actualize to refugees from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and regions of Ukraine who came to the Russian Federation from February 18, regardless of their nationality. The employee pays tax at preferential rates of 2% and 3% within one year from the moment he becomes self-employed”.

in early May reportedSince February 2022, more than 1.3 million people from Ukraine and Donbass have crossed the Russian border, of which 223,000 are minors.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.

The president described the purpose of the operation as “protecting people who have been subjected to eight years of bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime”. The decision to run the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.