To garner support for its attack on Ukraine, Russia on Saturday announced exemption of income tax for soldiers serving Russia-occupied regions in Ukraine. The exemption has been announced for Russian state employees as well.
Russian soldiers fighting in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, areas which Russia claims as its own would benefit from the exemption. According to the Russian decree, soldiers serving in the four regions will no longer would be required to furnish their income details.
“Soldiers, police, members of the security services and other state employees serving in the four regions no longer had to supply information on their income, their expenditure, their assets”, The Guardian reported quoting the decree.
The decree grants Russian personnel to receive rewards and gifts of humanitarian character and those received as part of the military operation in Ukraine. The decree also exempts partners and children of the Russian personnel.
Soldiers and senior officials close to Russia’s military-industrial complex are regularly convicted in corruption cases in which large sums of money have been embezzled, the publication reported. Russia has announced a series of incentives for its citizens to fight in Ukraine. Russia had announced cash incentives, banking and property facilities, and financial aid for families of injured or deceased persons.
