The decision was made concerning two taxpayers who tried to prove that the ability to suspend tax audits for an uncertain period of time limits constitutional freedom of business and breaks the constitutional rights of citizens. The final decision was made in favor of the tax authorities.

On July 6, the Federation Council approved the Federal Law that will lower the Unified Social Tax and change the regression threshhold.

Two topics were discussed at the conference: the property tax for organizations and the duties to be paid for the use of wildlife and water resources.

These events have been shown to be very useful for taxpayers and so the tax experts have decided to continue with this series of free seminars.

The Letter is dated March, but published only in April. The Letter states that if one does not have a place of residence in Russia and permission for temporary residence, it is "obviously not possible" to register with the tax authorities and receive the Individual Tax Number (INN).

According Tax Ministry Order № БГ-3-27/29 of 21 January 2004, on April 12-16, 2004 tax inspectorates will hold free seminars on completing the profit tax declaration.

In Mr. Gref's department, the project for reform of accounting and reporting according to which a number of Russian enterprises and organizations will be exempt from obligatory financial accounting. Modernization of the accounting and reporting systems is planned over three stages.