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I donate organs? Pay taxes!
The fund "Give Life" I paid 23-year-old bone marrow donor Julia Kovaleva road from Chelyabinsk and living in Moscow. She decided to donate their stem cells for transplant to sick children, but according to the law she would have to give the state 13% of the amount the charity fund spent on its maintenance in Moscow.
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Yuliya Kovaleva - Russia's first unrelated donor bone marrow. Share your cells she decided when she came to the station of blood transfusion. Julia replied in the affirmative to the question: "Would you like to become a bone marrow donor?»
Normally, stem cells are sacrificing patients close relatives: parents, brothers or sisters. All unrelated donors, which previously worked fund "Give Life", were foreigners. As explained in the company, in Russia there is no legal basis for this type of donation.
In all the procedures in a Moscow clinic it took 6 days. The fund "Give Life" took over the payment of accommodation, plane tickets and medical insurance for the girl. Although Julia gives your cells free of charge, under Russian law, she as a donor to pay income tax - 13% of the amount that the Fund has its residence in Moscow. According to the "Give Life" taxes levied extended typing (analysis material), payment of medical insurance, transfer to the clinic from other cities and living expenses. If she herself paid for accommodation in Moscow, to pay the tax would not have to.
Tax deducted from Julia. This sum had to compensate the fund.
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Details and power under the cut
Yuliya Kovaleva - Russia's first unrelated donor bone marrow. Share your cells she decided when she came to the station of blood transfusion. Julia replied in the affirmative to the question: "Would you like to become a bone marrow donor?»
Normally, stem cells are sacrificing patients close relatives: parents, brothers or sisters. All unrelated donors, which previously worked fund "Give Life", were foreigners. As explained in the company, in Russia there is no legal basis for this type of donation.
In all the procedures in a Moscow clinic it took 6 days. The fund "Give Life" took over the payment of accommodation, plane tickets and medical insurance for the girl. Although Julia gives your cells free of charge, under Russian law, she as a donor to pay income tax - 13% of the amount that the Fund has its residence in Moscow. According to the "Give Life" taxes levied extended typing (analysis material), payment of medical insurance, transfer to the clinic from other cities and living expenses. If she herself paid for accommodation in Moscow, to pay the tax would not have to.
Tax deducted from Julia. This sum had to compensate the fund.
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