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The head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Boris Kovalchuk, speaking to the department's employees, announced that the moratorium on inspections of IT companies in Russia has ended. He also called for an inspection of pricing in the digitalization sphere. "I would like to remind you that there was a moratorium on inspections of IT companies, among others, but it recently ended. Now the authorities can begin to inspect companies," said Boris Kovalchuk.

platform for organizing business albania whatsapp number database trips and managing expenses "Raketa" Daria Zubritskaya believes that the return of inspections is a natural event: "Regulators are gradually starting to return the usual inspection tools for IT companies, since it is important to ensure a fair position of businesses in the market. For IT companies, this decision may either go unnoticed or affect business operations. The return of inspections may have a key impact on companies that have minimized their internal practice of checking for compliance with the regulator's rules."

Boris Kukhlev, CEO of a company specializing in business digitalization, Bobdey Soft, is confident that the checks will affect only a small part of Russian organizations: "So far, we are talking only about checking pricing, and for a limited number of companies - marketplaces. In fact, this is not an inspection of the IT services market, but pricing for participants in digital platforms. This will not affect the lion's share of IT market participants. As for the issue of pricing in digitalization - if we are talking about the IT services market and software supply, then prices here are highly dependent on the labor market, which is in short supply. There is fierce competition in the IT market itself. We do not see any abuses."

Kirill Semion, CEO of the National Competence Center for Information Systems of Holding Management (NCC ISU), explained why there is a pricing problem: "Russian vendors themselves do not fully understand what exactly they are selling, so they cannot form a clear and attractive price. Companies do not know what criteria the price should depend on. Due to such uncertainty, a project approach works. The price for software is set directly during negotiations, and all parameters are approved in a dialogue between the parties on an individual basis. Moreover, this state of affairs is typical not only for startups, but also for large players. The lack of a product approach leads to the fact that IT solutions are not sold, but rather products, which significantly limits their commercial potential and scalability."

The moratorium on scheduled state and municipal inspections of IT companies included in the special register of accredited organizations of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media came into force in the spring of 2022. However, in March 2024, the Russian government allowed inspections of IT companies for compliance with antitrust laws. At that time, the lifting of the moratorium affected only a part of organizations with a digital platform, a share of buyer and seller transactions over 35% of all market transactions and revenue of more than 2 billion rubles.

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