The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has announced that it will not impose a profit tax on agricultural producers and will maintain all existing preferential conditions for them. The ministry successfully defended the profit tax benefit during last year's amendments to the Tax Code. Farmers will continue to have access to property tax rates that can be set between 0 and 2.2 percent, and a preferential single agricultural tax rate that can be set between 0 and 6 percent, with some regions having zero rate. This means farmers will be exempt from income tax and property tax used in production of agricultural products.