VKontakte will make money on bloggers and pay their taxes for six months

VKontakte promises to compensate tax payments to authors who register on the platform as self-employed and will advertise in public using social network advertising tools, a company representative told Vedomosti. Compensations will be equivalent to tax deductions for professional income, i.e. 4-6% from each payment. The compensation program is designed for six months, he said.

Only those authors who will work through the advertising tools of the network will receive payments for showing ads in public, the representative of VKontakte specified. If a self-employed author receives money from the advertiser directly, there will be no tax refund here.