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A website pays off Pavel Durov's (minuscule) tax arrears

Source: Meduza

Reporters discovered earlier this week that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov owed four rubles and 23 kopecks (less than $0.70) to the Federal Tax Service for underpaid taxes on his St. Petersburg apartment.

Though a person’s tax arrears must exceed 3,000 rubles ($49) before federal officials can ask a court to freeze their bank accounts, several Telegram channels speculated that the authorities might use the back taxes as a pretext to harass Durov, in retaliation for his stand against Roskomnadzor. To eliminate these concerns and so Telegram’s CEO wouldn’t be “distracted,” the website Fontanka went ahead and paid off Durov’s tax debt for him.

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