Today, many Belarusian media came out with "sensational" headlines that the Belarusian operators allegedly ordered to pay 1.5% of income to the Fund of the Ministry of communications. Actually the new decree introduces only minor legal clarification in order No. 96, in force since 2007. The allowance of deductions in the amount of 1.5% there is already 8 years old.

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Today, many Belarusian media came out with "sensational" headlines that the Belarusian operators allegedly ordered to pay 1.5% of income to the Fund of the Ministry of communications. Actually the new decree introduces only minor legal clarification in order No. 96, in force since 2007. The allowance of deductions in the amount of 1.5% there is already 8 years old.

the same is valid and the Fund of the Ministry of communications. Only if he had previously appeared as "state budget universal service Fund", now as "state non-budgetary Fund universal service".

the Goal of spending and norms of deductions to the Fund remained the same. However, some media have decided that renaming the Fund is sufficient to announce the introduction of a new tax "on communication".