Filmmakers' Union demands tax the DVD-players

05.08.2009

Union of Cinematographers of Russia made a proposal to introduce a special tax on consumer video equipment. These deductions under the version of the UK, should be credited to special funds - the Development Fund for Culture and the Development Fund for cinema. The bill already considered by the Government of the Russian Federation. Earlier, the UK proposed to tax domestically produced and imported from abroad discs. These funds are expected to transfer directly to the Union of Cinematographers.

The duty to monitor the payment of collection of money offered to lay on the FCS of Russia and the Russian Federal Tax Service.