Putin: Government must consider support for nonprofit organizations

MOSCOW, Apr 30 (PRIME) -- The Russian government should provide additional support to nonprofit organizations, including a delay in tax payments, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday in an online conference.

“I think it is necessary to provide additional support measures for socially oriented nonprofit organizations, the measures that are comparable with those that were developed for small and medium-sized businesses that suffered from the coronavirus pandemic,” he said.

“It is about a six-month delay for the payments of taxes and insurance payments to the social fund, and also a delay of rent for state and municipal property in line with the previous decision. I would like to point out that the companies would be allowed to redeem the debt accumulated during these six months in several installments, not as a lump sum,” he said.

Putin also said that the authorities have to revise the incentives for employees of social organizations during the coronavirus pandemic. The government should also allocate 3 billion rubles of additional money to the grants for volunteers and nonprofits that fight the coronavirus. The money may come through the presidential grants fund, he said.

(73.6894 rubles – U.S. $1)

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