TAX CHANGES Social tax, charged on employers’ payroll funds, will drop from 34 percent of payroll to 20 percent for small businesses and 30 percent for all others, making a 460 billion ruble ($16.5 billion) dent in federal revenues, Putin reiterated Thursday. There’s a plan to charge employers a social tax on salaries higher than 512,000 rubles a year, which are now exempt. The rate is to be determined but will […]