Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law raising the rate of tax deductions on added cost (VAT). From January 2019, the tax rate will increase to 20 % From the current eighteen. While preserving preferential rates, and will remain in force rights of automobile manufacturers to obtain a deduction for amounts of VAT paid When purchasing goods, works and services, even if they were acquired at the expense of budget subsidies or public investment. at the same time by 2025 to extend the validity of the zero rate of VAT to air transportation of passengers and cargo in the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, and also sets the same rate for such air transportation in the far Eastern Federal district. The validity of the zero rate VAT on air travel in the Kaliningrad region is also set to 2025. currently, domestic air travel subject to VAT at a concessional rate of ten %, with the exception of the Crimea and Sevastopol, for which zero duty is set before January 1, 2019, and the Kaliningrad region, where it is valid indefinitely. The law also retains the current amount of the contribution for compulsory pension insurance