Russia can make concessions for foreign buyers of domestic software. The Ministry of Fields prepared a draft government decree, in which the program of preferential lending and preferential financing for foreign customers of software is prescribed. With the proposal of the department got acquainted “Vedomosti”.
The Ministry of Media wants to make subsidies available to four categories of borrowers: foreign customers, Russian software developers, individual entrepreneurs, as well as Russian companies that implement projects together with legal entities with them in one group. To obtain a preferential loan, a foreign borrower will have to meet several requirements: not to be in the process of liquidation or reorganization (except for the reorganization of the borrower in the form of accession or transformation), and the bankruptcy case should not be initiated against the borrower. In addition, the project implies preferential financing for the assignment of money requirements (factoring) for these borrowers.
At the moment, only domestic companies engaged in digital transformation use the program of preferential lending. Since the end of 2019, this category of Jurlitz got the opportunity to attract from 25 million to 5 billion rubles to the project at a rate of from 1 to 5 percent (later the minimum volume of a preferential loan for one project was reduced to 5 million). If we are talking about a whole program with a budget, you can get a loan of 500 million to 10 billion rubles under the same conditions.
Condition for project subsidies is the observance of a certain share of domestic software in projects (70 percent). The Ministry of Media offers to increase the amount of a preferential loan – up to 20 billion on a separate project and up to 30 billion on the program. In addition, the Office considers it necessary to introduce preferential financing of the cost of modification and adaptation of foreign developments.
Earlier in January, the Ministry of Industry Distribution found a way to force the state-owned company to buy Russian processors. To this end, the Office was offered to introduce a two-level system of admission to the state procurement market. Computers, laptops, tablets, e-books, smartphones, system units, servers and data storage systems with a Russian processor will fall at first level. The second will remain those that enter the register of domestic electronics, but use foreign solutions. If the system is introduced, the state corporations will always delete applications from the second level if there is at least one application from the first.