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Agreed that the link should go to the BBC source article, but for what it's worth, general business/finance stuff is generally considered to be on topic here, because of the large overlap with general finance topics and startups.

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My "not sure" was meant literally, for what it's worth. Though I think saying startups -> money -> Russian tax policy is a bit of a stretch.

I agree that the connection is tenuous, but long-term capital gains taxes are of special interest to founders since they affect their net returns on exits.

For someone like me, a European interested in doing startups, this is very interesting. Depending on controlled foreign company (tax) laws this might mean Russia will become a zero tax jurisdiction for business owners with income from patents, licenses, domain names, ecommerce etc. If these sources of income belong to companies in countries with zero corporate tax.

Edit: Russia does not (at the moment) have CFC laws. It may be time to learn russian...

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