For each child you will have to pay half the cost of the patent," - an expert on new taxes for immigrants.
Lawyer, expert in immigration law, founder of Legal Russia, Yevgenia Sugutskaya, explains that the new rules will affect three categories of foreigners: working under a patent for individuals, organizations and individual entrepreneurs, as well as certain categories of citizens working without a patent for people's personal and domestic needs.
For example, when the current cost of a patent in Moscow and the Moscow region is 10 thousand rubles, an employee with one child will have to pay 15 thousand. If there are two working parents in the family, one of them will pay the additional payment for minor children.
"If, for example, he arrived and has one child, he pays 15,000, meaning for each plus half of 10,000, 5,000."
For certain categories of foreigners working without a patent, the additional payment will be approximately 1,700 rubles per child. The new requirements do not apply to all foreigners without exception - for example, couriers from EAEU countries working in delivery services will not be affected.
The changes, the expert says, are intended to strengthen control over the stay of foreign families in Russia. To this end, the tax service and the Ministry of the Interior will compare information on income, border crossings and the number of dependents.