Automotive News March 2019 Table of contents Introduction 4 Background Government support initiatives 5 Government support By 2024, industrial companies will receive RUB 258 billion in concessional loans 6 initiatives The Ministry of Industry and Trade released amendments to the Government Recycling fee resolution that regulate the extension of subsidies to exporters to compensate their transportation costs 6 Customs regulations New regulation of subsidies to Russian car makers to partially compensate the costs of production of wheeled vehicles and associated components 6 Track and trace SPIC 2.0 projects might be suspended 6 (T&T) and paperless procedures Ministry of Industry and Trade and GAZ Group sign SPIC to produce new models 7 The Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a SPIC with AVTOVAZ. The parties to Other federal the SPIC include companies of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, Lada legislation news Izhevsk, and the governments of Samara Region, the Udmurt Republic, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Kaluga Region 7 Court practice (precedent cases) The Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a SPIC with Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus 7 Deloitte’s periodicals The Ministry of Industry and Trade called for refining the national strategy for car component industry 7 Contacts Dmitry Medvedev chaired the meeting on fostering agricultural machinery industry held at CLAAS machinery plant on 18 January 7 The Ministry of Industry and Trade calls for granting discounts to users of construction equipment and utility vehicles 8 The Ministry of Industry and Trade includes high-tech agricultural machinery into subsidised goods’ list 8 Recycling fee 9 A new bill adding environmental tax and recycling fee to the Tax Code is developed 10 Customs regulations 11 New rules for declaring goods illicitly imported in the EAEU 12 © 2019 Deloitte Consulting LLC Automotive News 2 Table of contents Track and trace (T&T) and paperless procedures 13 Background EEC meeting on e-passports 14 Government support T&T for tyres 14 initiatives Other federal legislation news 15 Recycling fee Property tax exemption for movables 16 Customs regulations VAT rate increase to 20 percent & electronic services 16 Warranty repairs 16 Track and trace (T&T) and paperless procedures Court practice (precedent cases) 17 VAT refund (upon expiration of three years) 18 Other federal legislation news Recovery of VAT on spare parts used for creating a prototype 18 Property tax benefits for non-residential buildings of the High energy efficiency Court practice class 18 (precedent cases) Treatment of expenses to advertise cars in car races 19 Deloitte’s periodicals Lower withholding tax on interest reclassified into dividends 19 Contacts Use of the five-percent threshold for VAT on expenses from VAT exempt operations 20 Recovery of VAT on parts used for warranty repairs 20 Deloitte periodicals 21 Contacts 22 © 2019 Deloitte Consulting LLC Automotive News 3 Background The end of 2018 saw a number of important changes in the regulatory environment, which primarily Background concerned the government support measures. From now on, concessional loans will replace the subsidies to industrial companies. Funds will be allocated to industrial exporters under the International Cooperation and Export projects via the Russian Foundation for Technological Government support Development, the Russian Export Centre, the Industry Development Fund, and the relevant financial initiatives institutions. The measures are implemented as part of the so-called “competitive growth programmes”, a long-term export-driven corporate development initiative. Despite the changes, a number of subsidies will remain, e.g. those compensating the industrial Recycling fee producers’ transportation costs, and a package of subsidies to partially compensate the electricity costs, warranty obligations, and workplace maintenance costs. In its subsidy policy, the Government specifically focuses on boosting production of the Russian Customs regulations agricultural machinery. Learn more about the new subsidy rules in the “Government support initiatives” section. Another Government’s plan calls for formalising the recycling fee in the Russian Tax Code: a bill to Track and trace that effect is currently pending with the lawmakers. For more details, please refer to the “Recycling (T&T) and paperless fee” section. procedures The enactment of amendments to Resolution of The Supreme Eurasian Economic Council No. 72 of 29 May 2014 “On applicability of the complete knock-down (CKD) regime in the Customs Union and Common Economic Space member states”, setting limits on the distribution of CKD vehicles with a Other federal localisation rate below 50 percent after 1 July 2018, was postponed indefinitely. To learn about the legislation news developments, please refer to the “Customs regulations” section. Priority measures ensuring introduction of electronic vehicle passports in the EAEU were approved. Court practice The national segments of the e-passport system are planned to have been tested by 1 November 2019, after which the system must go live across the EAEU. The Government also approved the (precedent cases) track-and-trace and labelling systems. Learn more in the “T&T and paperless procedures” section. Deloitte’s periodicals Tatiana Kofanova Director Tax&Legal Contacts Automotive Group Leader [email protected] © 2019 Deloitte Consulting LLC Automotive News 4 Background Government support initiatives Government support Recycling fee initiatives Customs regulations Track and trace (T&T) and paperless procedures Other federal legislation news Court practice (precedent cases) Deloitte’s periodicals Contacts © 2019 Deloitte Consulting LLC Automotive News 5 Background Government support initiatives By 2024, industrial effective measures. Over 2017- The subsidies will compensate companies will receive RUB 2018 (as at 1 December 2018), up to 90 percent of CKD Recycling fee 258 billion in concessional over 230 industrial producers acquisition costs (net of VAT), loans with average supplies exceeding incurred since 1 January 2018. RUB 408 bln were supported, Customs regulations According to the recent updates with an average multiplier effect The costs compensated through to the government support of the subsidies amounting to the programmes supporting policies introduced by the 1/19 (volume of exports per Euro IV- and Euro V-compliant Track and trace Ministry of Industry and Trade, vehicle manufacturers will be out each rouble spent). (T&T) and paperless such loans will replace the of the scope of these subsidies. subsidies to industrial However, due to the high procedures companies. Funds will be demand for the subsidies, the The Ministry of Industry and allocated to industrial exporters following rules were introduced: Trade is currently working on under the International a respective resolution for 2019. Other federal • sectoral limits Cooperation and Export projects SPIC 2.0 projects might be legislation news via the Russian Foundation for • limits per producer per suspended Technological Development. financial year Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Court practice Allocation-wise, 40 percent of all • provision of subsidy is Kozak proposed suspending (precedent cases) loans will go to the mechanical conditional on meeting the work on the new special engineering companies with supply commitments investment contracts’ regime nearly a third of them, or 12 (including the new exports) (SPIC 2.0), advocated by the Deloitte’s periodicals percent of the entire and the previous subsidies’ Ministry of Industry and Trade, programme’s volume, effectiveness limiting their availability to the designated for the automotive car manufacturers that signed manufacturers. • minimum multiplier effect SPICs. Contacts requirements The Ministry of Industry and The current document is viewed Trade released amendments • additional incentives for as an interim version that might to the Government resolution achieving a particular either be turned down or that regulate the extension of multiplier effect value and subsequently replaced by subsidies to exporters to using the Russian the previous version, featuring compensate their transportation companies. a scoring system and R&D transportation costs New regulation of subsidies requirements, which the The amendments to Government to Russian car makers to manufacturers deem Resolution No. 496 of 26 April partially compensate the impracticable. Nevertheless, 2017 were developed in line with costs of production of the requirements to use the Government’s International wheeled vehicles and Russian-made engines, Cooperation and Export project associated components gearboxes, and body metal are and are aimed at streamlining preserved, but they cannot be the mechanism of The subsidies will be granted to complied with by all players. compensations of the industrial Russian-registered producers of producers’ transportation costs. wheeled vehicles or associated components that use imported Supporting the export-oriented completely knocked-down (CKD) companies by compensating kits (the “industrial assembly” their transportation costs is one regime). of the most popular and © 2019 Deloitte Consulting LLC Automotive News 6 Background Government support initiatives Ministry of Industry and The Ministry of Industry and the car component strategy Trade and GAZ Group sign Trade signed a SPIC with agenda. One of the options is to Recycling fee SPIC to produce new models Hyundai Motor Manufacturing establish a PPP foundation