Residents of the Moscow region are faced with a new type of fraud – malefactors demand to pay income tax on benefits for children and pensioners. This was reported in the Main Directorate of Regional Security.
Fraudsters send letters to potential victims informing them of the need to pay 13% of personal income tax from summer payments of 10 thousand rubles for preschool children and autumn payments to pensioners by December 1. At the same time, residents of the Moscow region are also required to provide tax returns.
The security department, in turn, drew attention to Art. 217 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation. According to the document, government payments, with the exception of sick leave, are not subject to income tax.
Thus, only the Federal Tax Service (FTS) can send tax claims. Whereas notifications come through the taxpayer’s personal account or to the “Russian Post”, it is indicated in a statement management from November 19.
Earlier, on November 9, the chairman of the Union of Consumers of Financial Services (Finpotrebsoyuz) Igor Kostikov also wrote about the receipt of such a “letter of happiness” on his Facebook page. He was outraged by the fact that the PFR allegedly could not exempt these payments from personal income tax.
The Ministry of Labor and the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, in turn, assured that lump-sum payments to pensioners, pensions, payments for children under 3 years old, from 3 to 7 years old, as well as on any other measures of social support of citizens are not subject to personal income tax.
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