For the past few years, January has been the shortest month in terms of the number of work shifts in the production calendar in Russia. If previously Russians went to work a couple of days after New Year's Eve, then now the vacation lasts more than a week. Recently, various news has appeared that Duma deputies want to take away the January holidays and return to the previous order. We remind you how we relax on New Year and Christmas in 2018 - days off on January holidays according to the officially approved production calendar.

Weekend in January 2018: how we relax for the New Year holidays and Christmas

New Year and Christmas holidays for working Russians in 2017-2018 will last ten days: from December 30, 2017 to January 8, 2018.

The news about the approval of the production calendar for 2018 is surprising and remarkable in its own way - the media reported about this event at least three times during 2017. In summer production calendar was drawn up, approved in early autumn, and officially approved in mid-autumn. In fact, we were told about the same thing three times, so those who regularly read the latest news did not miss the schedule of working days and weekends for 2018.

Those who constantly read the news did not miss the message that deputies of the State Duma, among the priority bills for the fall of 2017, were going to consider a plan to revise the list of holidays and weekends. And the new holiday reform was primarily supposed to affect the New Year holidays, which, according to the authors of the initiative, are unacceptably long.

On the fate of the bill on significant reduction New Year holidays nothing more was heard from working Russians, and it is unlikely to affect the coming New Year, even if passed. The above New Year's weekend dates for the coming new year are officially approved and will not have to be revised, like all the others.

In 2017-2018, the New Year holidays turned out to be ten days due to the fact that the last two days of 2017, which fortunately fell on Saturday and Sunday, were added to the standard eight days of rest from January 1 to 8: December 30 and 31.

The New Year and Christmas weekend in Russia is enshrined in the Labor Code, which states that in our country January 1-6, as well as January 8, are New Year holidays, and January 7 is Christmas. All these days are official non-working days.

In total, the Labor Code provides for 14 additional days off per year due to holidays. Eight of them occur in January.

It is curious that since two of the eight days of the New Year's weekend in 2018 fall on Saturday and Sunday, then, according to the existing rules, for these days the rule of moving the day off to another date applies. True, if usually the next Monday becomes a day off in such cases, then the January weekend is moved to other months of the year, so that it is convenient for establishing days off in connection with other public holidays. The government ordered two January weekends in such a way that one of them was postponed to March, the second to May.

New Year holidays, due to their duration, have become great time so that families can spend this time together. Since school holidays also fall on the same dates, residents of Russia have a good opportunity to relax with the whole family, either by traveling during the holidays, or simply walking or spending time at home. New Year– the holiday is very family-oriented and, despite all its mass appeal, personal, far from any politics or ideology. We hope that State Duma deputies will not encroach on the established good order and will not cancel the long January holiday, which is so important for many of our compatriots.

The New Year is always a time of hope for a better future soon. And although, of course, these hopes are not always justified, Russians, as in childhood, continue to remain optimistic and believe that with the change of year their lives will change. Happy New Year holidays and Merry Christmas to you!

Many site visitors want to get more information about the work schedule of the tax service, including the work of inspections on weekends and holidays, as well as find out exact time work of the tax office to which they want to apply.

Working hours of tax inspectorates

In order to understand the operating mode of the tax office, it is necessary to determine which tax office we are going to contact. There are two types of inspections: district tax inspectorates, interdistrict inspections. Depending on the type, tax offices will have slightly different operating hours and reception times for citizens. Please also note that almost all tax offices have an operating room, the opening hours of which differ from the opening hours of the inspection.

Work of district inspectorates

District tax inspectorates are designed to provide territorial service to tax entities. The operating hours of such inspections are presented in the table.

Schedule/Working hours:

Attention! These tax offices are open on Saturdays, but not on all Saturdays, but only on the 2nd and 4th of each month. On Sundays and holidays District inspectorates are not working.

Work of interdistrict inspections

Interdistrict tax inspectorates have specialized functions, including servicing certain groups of tax subjects, as well as performing registration actions and issuing documents. The operating hours of such inspections are presented in the table.

The operating room is open every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the calendar month from 10.00 to 15.00.

Attention! These tax inspectorates, except for the 46th tax inspectorate, also work on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month. As for the 46th tax inspectorate, this inspectorate does not work on Saturdays. On Sundays and public holidays, interdistrict inspections are closed.

Check opening hours before visiting

Before any visit to the tax office, we strongly recommend that you check the opening hours of a particular office on our website. You can do this by going to the page of the inspection you are interested in.