Work patent in Chelyabinsk Region to cost nearly 18,000 rubles in 2027

The regional parliament approved a new regional coefficient that will significantly increase the monthly payment for foreign nationals working under a patent. Neighboring Bashkortostan is preparing to raise the patent cost by more than 21%.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region adopted a law setting the regional coefficient used to calculate advance personal income tax payments made by foreign nationals working under a patent. For 2027, the coefficient was set at 4.9825, compared with 4.9437 this year, RIA European-Asian News reports.

With the new figure, migrants working for companies, individual entrepreneurs, notaries and lawyers who have established private offices will pay nearly 18,000 rubles a month. For those working for individuals on personal and household needs, the payment will amount to 25,500 rubles. The region estimates that the law will bring 1.7 billion rubles to the regional budget in 2027.

Bashkortostan prepares a 21% increase

Bashkortostan is also planning to raise the cost of the patent. Kommersant writes that the republic’s Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Protection has proposed increasing the regional coefficient by 14.6%, to 2.86. Taking into account the fixed payment of 1,200 rubles and the federal deflator coefficient of 3.006, a patent in the republic will cost about 10,300 rubles a month, 21.2% more than at present. This remains a proposal, not an adopted decision.

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According to the regional labor ministry, more than 25,800 foreign nationals obtained patents in Bashkortostan last year, the highest figure in six years. About 19,900 patents were issued from January through October 2026. Advance personal income tax payments are expected to bring more than 1.1 billion rubles to the republic’s consolidated budget this year and about 1.5 billion rubles in 2027.

A work patent is required by citizens of visa-free countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union to work legally in Russia. Regions review the coefficients annually: deputies in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region previously approved raising the patent cost to 11,000 rubles from 2027, although the St. Petersburg measure has so far passed only its first reading.

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Work patent in Chelyabinsk Region to cost nearly 18,000 rubles in 2027