Users of foreign software will finance preferential IT loans

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2023-05-16 23:46:03

Russian companies will be able to continue legally using foreign software by transferring funds to a special account, part of the funds from which will be spent on financing preferential IT loans for developers. Such a measure is provided for in the updated version of the draft law on compulsory licensing of foreign software, which is being developed by the Ministry of Digital Development. This was told to Vedomosti by a source in the government and confirmed by an interlocutor in an IT company familiar with the discussion of the bill.

Payment for licenses will be made at the previous rates (how much they paid before the company left Russia) on special O-type accounts (ruble accounts in a number of banks, provided by presidential decree for settlements with foreign companies under sanctions pressure. – Vedomosti). If the remaining funds in the account are not claimed by the right holders, then they will subsequently be transferred to the IT industry support fund, for example, RFRIT, a source in the government clarifies.

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