Favorable Tax Treatment of Russian Software Companies and its Evolution from the Choice of Preferences to the Tax Maneuver in IT industry

Vladimir Gromov

Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal, 2022, issue 3, 9-27

Abstract: IT industry is noticeably distinguished by the tax support provided to it in the Russian economy. Nowadays software companies are treated as main contributors to national technological breakthrough being one of the main priorities of federal tax policy. Tax maneuver of 2021 significantly changed well-known tax rules, but some of novelties became a logical development of previously implemented measures. We systematize them by following our classification that introduces three main phases, all of which provided a qualitative update of the previous taxation framework, and for analysis consider particular reliefs as a unified, specific tax regime integrated in the general taxation system. The purpose of the article is to identify priorities and evaluate effectiveness of mechanisms designed to stimulate IT companies, including a preliminary assessment of valid perimeter and performance of the maneuver. Obtained results indicate that the tax regime initially given to software business had a bad design, an extremely narrow scope of beneficiaries and, due to this, a little effect on the IT industry; modernization of that design with the revision of basics was necessary at least in order to stop the decline of IT industry in the part of small companies. However, the main trend of recent tax policy demonstrates a strengthening of sustainable business with comparative fall of competitiveness of beginning entrepreneurs. In sum, the tax maneuver has a positive economic impact but covers, according to our estimates, less than 20% of IT companies.

Keywords: IT company; IT industry; corporate income tax; tax relief; tax regime; tax incentive; software business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H32 K34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.31107/2075-1990-2022-3-9-27

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