The Ministry of Economic Development proposes changes in the regulations of highly qualified specialists.
Dear clients, we present to your attention the latest important news regarding the work of HQS employees:
1. The Ministry of Economic Development has proposed to provide Russian highly qualified specialists with Russian citizenship in a simplified order. The corresponding package of bills is posted on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts. Moreover, according to the project, citizenship in a simplified manner will be granted to this category of specialists without observing the conditions for living in Russia for five years and renouncing their other citizenship.
2. The Ministry of Economic Development also proposed lowering the minimum salary, which relies in Russia on a highly qualified foreign specialist.
Now, according to the law "On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation", the salary should be among the criteria for the status of a highly qualified specialist, which should be at least 167 thousand rubles per month. To create favorable conditions for attracting such employees, the bill proposes to reduce the monthly salary as a criterion for the status of a highly qualified specialist to 100 thousand rubles and to establish its payment in proportion to the working time.
3. It is also proposed to introduce an increased cost of state duty for issuing a work permit to a highly qualified specialist. It is assumed that the size of this duty will be set at the level of the minimum payment for income tax of a highly qualified specialist for a month - 13 thousand rubles.
4. In addition, the project proposes to improve the monitoring of compliance by employers with the conditions for attracting such specialists in terms of accrual and the amount of personal income tax paid. So, it is proposed to establish penalties for employers in case of failure to pay the specified tax. According to the document, this will entitle the collection of a fine in two times the amount of unfulfilled obligations.