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Dear guests of the Russian Federation!
Since April 2018, the value-added tax refund system (Tax Free System) has been launched in the Russian Federation.
To be eligible for a VAT refund, you must be a citizen of a foreign country outside of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU – the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation).
To receive a tax-free service, you should purchase goods for no less than 10,000 roubles, tax included, from a single retailer during one day at retailer locations approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. Certain retailers provide VAT refund services in the following regions:

•    The Republic of Buryatia
•    The Republic of Mordovia
•    The Republic of Tatarstan
•    Zabaikalsky Krai
•    Krasnodar Krai
•    Krasnoyarsk Krai
•    Primorsky Krai
•    Khabarovsk Krai
•    Amur oblast
•    Volgograd oblast
•    Irkutsk oblast
•    Kaliningrad oblast
•    Leningrad oblast
•    Moscow oblast
•    Nizhny Novgorod oblast
•    Novgorod oblast
•    Rostov oblast  
•    Samara oblast
•    Sverdlovsk oblast
•    Moscow
•    Saint-Petersburg

VAT refund is not applicable to excise goods, including alcohol and tobacco.
To receive a refund, export your purchased goods through border crossings approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

I.    Road border crossings
•Brusnichnoye
•Zabaikalsk
•Ivangorod
•Kraskino
•Kyakhta
•Mamonovo (Grzekhotki)
•Svetogorsk
•Torfyanovka

II.    Air border crossings
•Vladivostok (Knevichi)
•Volgograd (Gumrak)
•Yekaterinburg (Koltsovo)
•Zhukovsky (Moscow oblast)
•Irkutsk
•Kazan
•Kaliningrad (Khrabrovo)
•Krasnoyarsk (Yemelyanovo)
•Moscow (Vnukovo)
•Moscow (Domodedovo)
•Moscow (Sheremetyevo)
•Nizhny Novgorod (Strigino)
•Rostov-on-Don (Platov)
•Samara (Kurumoch)
•Saint Petersburg (Pulkovo)
•Saransk
•Sochi
•Ulan-Ude (Mukhino)
•Khabarovsk (Novyi)
•Chita (Kadala)

III.     Sea border crossings
•Bolshoi Port, Saint Petersburg
•Vladivostok
•Passenger Port, Saint Petersburg

Individuals can claim a tax refund within a year after the purchase provided that the goods are exported within three months from the purchase date.
For more details, please contact Tax Free operators in Russia:

•DIGITAXFREE (https://digitaxfree.ru/)
•Global Blue (http://www.globalblue.com/)
•SberTax Free (https://sbertaxfree.ru/