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Hedging


5. For the purposes of this chapter, hedging operations are understood to mean operations (a set of operations) with financial instruments of derivative transactions (including different types), carried out in order to reduce (compensate) adverse consequences for the taxpayer (in whole or in part), resulting from the occurrence of a loss, failure to obtain profit, reduction of revenue, reduction of the market value of property, including property rights (claims), increase of the taxpayer's liabilities as a result of changes in price, interest rate, exchange rate, including the exchange rate of foreign currency against the currency of the Russian Federation, or any other indicator (set of indicators) of the hedging object (hedging objects)

Source: "Tax Code of the Russian Federation (Part Two)" dated 05.08.2000 No. 117-FZ (as amended on 03.12.2012)

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