Ed. Note: if you’re new to TURBOFAC, please take note that the text string filtration function generally shouldn’t be used for terms such as “ordinarily resident,” “causing” or “new debt”. For research on the meaning of words and phrases such as those, i.e. terms central to the key legal issues in sanctions law that appear on a cross-programmatic basis, you’re typically better off locating and checking the appropriate box in the “Key Legal Issues” search category, which will limit the results to those that have been manually assessed as being relevant for the interpretation of the terms at issue.
Try typing your search term (“ordinarily resident,” “new debt,” or something else) in the “Find a Search Filter” box at the top of the page, and the corresponding “Key Legal Issues” check box will pop up instantly, if one exists. Once you check the box (e.g. “new debt,” with ~55 results), you can always use the text string filtration function to further refine your search (e.g. by typing “invoice” and narrowing the ~55 results to ~10).
Note in addition that the same applies to text string searches such as “14071” (if you’re looking for items related to EO 14071). By typing “14071” in the “Find a Search Filter” field up top, you will be able to instantly narrow the results down to items manually assessed as relating to EO 14071. Ditto terms such as “515.204” or “Iran General License G” (try the “Discrete Legal Provision” search category).
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1) BACKGROUND
As conveyed by OFAC in the body of the question of the 3-30-23 version of the FAQ, “the Government of the Russian Federation may require a so-called ‘exit tax’ payment prior to the divestment of assets located in the Russian Federation,” and such taxes may “potentially requir[e] transactions involving the Central Bank of the Russian Federation or the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.”
More specifically, there is a “Government Commission on Monitoring Foreign Investment,” which involves various government agencies (http://government.ru/en/info/1027/), and a separate “subcommittee” of that Government Commission that administers the divestment approval and exit tax assessment process (https://minfin.gov.ru/common/upload/library/2022/03/main/09_03_2022__1-36914.pdf).
The subcommittee was set up in March, 2022 and was (and as of 3-31-23 is) headed by the SDN Minister of Finance, Anton Siluanov (https://minfin.gov.ru/ru/permission/79-81)....