Russia Gives Social Services Access to Taxpayer Data Amid Virus

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law measures that would limit the confidentiality of tax information and give a tax break to medical workers during the new coronavirus pandemic.

The new law allows regional social protection agencies to access information on the income of individuals that constitutes a tax secret to improve the quality of providing state social assistance, the government said Friday in a statement. The statement didn’t elaborate further.

The law also exempts from taxation income that medical employees receive as one-time compensation payments, the statement said.