Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court rejected the claim laid by Sverdlovsk Region prosecution authorities regarding declaring invalid a certain normative act, namely, the region’s law on imposing corporate property tax (subparagraphs 12 and 13), Kommersant reports.

The prosecution authorities claimed that the subparagraphs in question did not comport with the certain points of Russia’s Tax Code and that they violate the existing Competition Protection Act.

Now the amendments to the law were made in October 2010 and came into effect at the start of 2011. According to one of these amendments, companies that started using railway carriages in 2010 don’t have to pay corporate property tax for the next three years. This tax relief was one of the provisos for Second Freight Company to be registered in Sverdlovsk Region. Among the papers that a tax relief applicant must provide is the proof of railway carriages going into operation.