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2021: Belarus introduced criminal liability for paying salaries "in envelopes"
In June 2021, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a law introducing criminal liability in the country for paying salaries "in envelopes" - without transferring taxes and contributions to pension and social insurance funds.
 | By paying salaries without accounting, the employer causes damage not only to the state, but also to employees (ranging from their lack of guarantees of receiving the agreed earnings and ending with an unfair size of the future pension, deprivation of other social benefits), the State Control Committee of the republic said in a statement. |  |
According to changes in Belarusian legislation, which will enter into force on June 19, 2021, the maximum penalty for evading payments of taxes, fees and insurance premiums will be three years in prison and a fine. If it led to damage on an especially large scale - seven years in prison and a fine.
The committee stressed that criminal liability is provided only for deliberate actions related to non-payment of insurance premiums and non-enumeration of taxes and fees. And only on condition that the amount of unpaid payments exceeds a large amount: for taxes, fees - 1 thousand basic values, for insurance premiums - 2.5 thousand basic values (by June 8, 2021 this is 29 thousand Belarusian rubles and 72.5 thousand Belarusian rubles, respectively).
Another prerequisite for criminal prosecution for evading payment of insurance premiums is the proven fact of their deliberate non-registration.
Officials of organizations that do not hide wages, accrue insurance premiums, but do not transfer them to the social protection fund of the population (for example, due to the lack of funds in the current account), will bear administrative responsibility. [1]
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