about half of the collections at the personal income tax rate of 15% were provided by Moscow – Kommersant

At the end of 2023, the federal budget received 159.5 billion rubles. from income at an increased rate of 15%, which is valid for citizens with annual earnings above 5 million rubles. Of these, 78.8 billion rubles. (49.4%) came from Moscow, follows from the statistics of the Federal Tax Service, which I read RBC.

The ranking of regions from which the largest number of taxes were received at an increased personal income tax rate also included St. Petersburg, the Moscow Region, the Krasnodar Territory and the Sverdlovsk Region. In terms of the share of collections, the Kostroma and Kaliningrad regions close the top five.

The volume of revenues to the federal budget from an additional 2 p.p. in 2023 increased by 7%. In the previous year, this figure amounted to 149 billion rubles. In 2024, the authorities predict that the amount of revenue will be 176 billion rubles.

A progressive tax scale has been in effect in Russia since January 1, 2021. Exceeding earnings by 5 million rubles. per year is taxed at 15% rather than 13%. Russian President Vladimir Putin in his message to the Federal Assembly instructed modernize the tax system, including considering increasing the tax burden on people with higher incomes. Representative of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov admittedthat the tax increase will affect people with an annual income of 1 million rubles, or approximately 83.3 thousand per month.

Read more about processing instructions in the Kommersant article. “The White House heeded the message”.

Petr Buzlaev