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Foreign NGOs Lose Tax Status.
(From The Moscow Times)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a decree reducing the number of international organizations allowed to issue tax-free grants from 101 to just 12, Interfax reported Wednesday.
The sharp reduction could raise new fears about a crackdown on foreign nongovernmental organizations.
Groups whose grants will no longer be tax-exempt from Jan. 1 include the World Wildlife Fund (Switzerland), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Switzerland), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS (Switzerland), the Ford Foundation (U.S.), the Eurasia Foundation (U.S.) and the Royal Society (Britain), Interfax said.
The 12 organizations that made the tax-exempt list ...
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