Putin proposed introducing a differentiated tax system

President Vladimir Putin ordered to modernize the tax system and fix it in a new form until 2030. The President proposed thinking about increasing the tax burden on people with higher incomes. At the same time, he proposed reducing the burden on families, including through technical deductionswhich were mentioned in the message.

“We need to consider a more equitable distribution of the tax burden towards those with higher corporate and personal incomes. And on the contrary, it is necessary to reduce the tax burden on families, including through deductions,” Vladimir Putin said in his address to the Federal Assembly.

The president added that “the plans are big, and so are the expenses.” According to him, large-scale investments are coming in the social sphere, demography, economics, science and other areas.

As Vladimir Putin said, businesses that invest in the development of social projects need to be stimulated. He also said it was necessary to “close all sorts of loopholes” that some companies use to evade taxes or understate their tax payments.

Until 2021, Russia had a flat tax scale – all citizens paid income tax at the same rate – 13%. On January 1, 2021, a progressive personal income tax scale, called a tax for the rich, began to operate in Russia. Now personal income tax for some individuals has become 15%. The changes affected citizens whose annual earnings are 5 million rubles. and more. The tax amounted to 650 thousand rubles. per year, plus 15% of the part that exceeds 5 million rubles. The government was going to use the collected money to treat children with rare, chronic and serious diseases.

On strengthening control over tax evaders – in the Kommersant FM article “The Federal Tax Service will take on debtors”.

Petr Buzlaev