Russia is thinking about introducing a tax on unsterilized pets 
Russia is thinking about introducing a tax on pets. While this may affect those who contain unsterilized pets. Such an initiative is being promoted by Irina Novozhilova, president of the VITA Animal Rights Center, reports TASS.
“If you don’t sterilize an animal, you pay taxes. If you are engaged in breeding as a business, then you pay huge taxes, ”she pointed to the experience of other countries. The next step, Novozhilova is sure, should be registration of pets and chipping. “The animal must be somehow marked so that we have all the information in the chip,” the animal rights activist concluded.
For her part, Vladimir Burmatov, First Deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, believes that registration and the neutering of animals should be free of charge. In addition, he advocates a ban on self-walking and an increase in the number of shelters.
Earlier, the State Duma proposed to introduce a limit on the number of pets depending on the size of housing. The initiative to organize an official registration of cats and dogs of Russians was made by the deputy and former world boxing champion Nikolai Valuev