Deputies of the state Duma from the Communist party have stated that they have grounds for collecting taxes from Google, eBay, PayPal and other companies. Earlier the deputies have addressed to the head of the Federal tax service with a request to strengthen the control over the payment of taxes multinational corporations, including Google and Apple, "Vedomosti". The Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee Valery Rashkin and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party Sergei Obukhov prepared corresponding Deputy inquiry.

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Deputies of the state Duma from the Communist party have stated that they have grounds for collecting taxes from Google, eBay, PayPal and other companies. Earlier the deputies have addressed to the head of the Federal tax service with a request to strengthen the control over the payment of taxes multinational corporations, including Google and Apple, "Vedomosti". The Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee Valery Rashkin and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party Sergei Obukhov prepared corresponding Deputy inquiry.

Deputies have already noted that the sale in Russia of apps, music, movies and other products in stores App Store, iTunes and Google Play should be taxed. In response, the Federal tax service to the parliamentary inquiry noted that an obstacle to the taxation of such services is the location of their infrastructure, including servers, outside of Russia.

Rashkin and Obukhov in the new query refer to media reports, according to which Google, eBay and PayPal have already started to migrate servers in data centers in Russia, which is associated with the entry from 1 September into force of the law on the storage of the processed on the Internet of personal data of the Russians.

"we Ask you to consider providing penalties provided for by the Russian tax legislation with Google, eBay, PayPal and other foreign corporations that provide their services via the Internet and having the appropriate infrastructure (particularly servers) in Russia" reads in the request.