“Reducing the profit tax from 20% to 3% in the long term will give a good effect and improve the sustainability of companies, – says Renat Lachine, Executive Director of ARPP “national software”. – Lower premiums – the expected measure of support for business. Our industry – qualified employees with high salaries”.
According to Lashina, today the cost of the payroll of it companies make about 80% of the total costs of organizations and therefore the insurance payments will help to support the industry and retain them. “And the indefinite extension of this measure will ensure the competitiveness of our companies in the global market. In General, the tax maneuver with the proposed options will contribute to the return of the it-business from abroad to Russia, the growth of Russian software export”, – he concluded.
Olga Minaeva, Director for interaction with public authorities ABBYY Russia, said that developers ON the payroll is the main expense, so reduction of the tax burden, including the reduction of insurance premiums – an important measure of support. “The decrease in income tax can have a positive impact on the development of the industry, especially in such a difficult period, when in the it field, as in other industries, the continuing fall in revenue. These initiatives are in addition to existing benefits will keep employees and to invest more in innovation,” she said.
Natalya kasperskaya, head of the working group “Information security” in the framework of the national project “Digital economy”, believes that the decline in benefits on insurance premiums is an effective measure, which will really support it companies and Russian development. “Now we are in the ARPP are trying to identify those it companies, which most of all suffered in the crisis, to identify the group of companies to submit proposals to the Ministry of communications of the Russian Federation” – she said.
