Izvestia: 28.53 trillion rubles of taxes and fees were collected in Russia in 2021
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In Russia, 28.53 trillion rubles of taxes and fees were collected in 2021, which is 35.8 percent more than in 2020. The federal budget received 15.88 trillion rubles from this amount. At the same time, almost half of them (47.6 percent) account for six regions, Izvestia reports with reference to an analysis of the international audit and consulting network FinExpertiza.
The leaders were Moscow (16.8 percent), Khanty-Mansiysk (14.4) and Yamalo-Nenets (6.7) Autonomous Okrugs, St. Petersburg (5 percent), Moscow Region (4.8). The least taxes were paid in Ingushetia (0.02), the Jewish Autonomous Region (0.03), Tuva (0.03), Kalmykia (0.04) and the Altai Republic (0.04 percent).
The largest fees were provided by the mineral extraction tax, 7.24 trillion rubles went to the federal budget, 98 billion were sent to the budgets of the regions. In second place is income tax (1.55 trillion to the federal budget, 4.53 trillion to the regions), followed by VAT, personal income tax, property tax, tax on additional income from production (ATD) and the regional part of excises.
The Ministry of Finance explained that oil and gas revenues, namely MET, AIT and export duties, increased significantly due to oil prices, as well as due to domestic demand, strengthening the economy and rising profits in a number of sectors.
Earlier it became known that the Ministry of Finance of Russia does not plan to raise personal income tax (PIT) in the coming years.
Also, the Ministry of Finance does not plan to increase the tax burden on Gazprom, despite the company's record profits. The department explained that Gazprom needs resources to gasify the country, and this is a “costly topic”, therefore, on the issue of taxes for the monopoly, “you need to be very careful.”
