Russia wants to double taxes for those with “citizenship of an unfriendly state”
11 July 2024 16:08
A draft law was introduced in the State Duma of the Russian Federation that provides for “discriminatory taxation” of Russians with second citizenship. The authors of the initiative called for doubling the tax rate for those who refuse to renounce the citizenship of an unfriendly state. The document was published in the legislative support system, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
“If the draft law is adopted <…>, discriminatory taxation will be applied to citizens of the Russian Federation [with a second citizenship] who acquired Russian citizenship by birth,”
– the explanatory note reads.
It also says that “doubling the tax rate” for Russians who “do not wish to renounce the citizenship of an unfriendly state” will help increase budget revenues.
New rules are also proposed to be introduced for foreigners who have been granted Russian citizenship.
“They will be obliged to renounce the citizenship of another state within six months from the date of acquiring Russian citizenship or the entry into force of this law,”
– said the authors of the initiative.
Otherwise, according to the bill, naturalised Russian citizens will be deprived of Russian citizenship.
According to the authors, the adoption of the draft law will “minimise the number of citizens who have stable political and legal ties with foreign countries that negatively affect the socio-political system in the Russian Federation”.
We would like to add that between 350,000 and 3 million Ukrainians have both Russian and Ukrainian citizenship. In 2023 alone, the Information Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Rostov Region registered more than a million residents of the occupied territories of Ukraine.
It should be noted that the Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the specifics of the legal status of residents of the temporarily occupied regions (“DPR”, “LPR”, parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions) who decided not to become Russian citizens.
Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said that Ukrainians in the TOT should take a Russian passport or leave the territory in any way to save their lives.
