Revenues from privatization amounted to 28.9 billion rubles. instead of the plan for 1.8 billion rubles.

The federal budget received 28.9 billion rubles from privatization in 2023, reported the Federal Property Management Agency. “Izvestia”. The volume of sales of corporate assets amounted to 27.3 billion rubles, sales of state treasury property – 1.6 billion rubles.

The Russian authorities planned to earn 1.8 billion rubles from privatization. in 2023. Thus, the plan was exceeded 16 times. In 2022, income from the sale of property amounted to RUB 934 million. It is expected that in 2024 the budget will receive 1.6 billion rubles from privatization, and in 2025 – 1.5 billion rubles. In addition, the Federal Property Management Agency reported that by the end of 2023, 1.8 billion rubles will be credited to the budget of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund. from the sale of corrupt property.

The head of the department of investment consulting and assessment of the FinExpertiza audit and consulting network, Vitaly Aristarkhov, suggested that the plan in 2023 was exceeded thanks to two transactions: the sale of the Phoenix company, which manages the Bronka port in St. Petersburg, and the sale of shares in the Kuchuksulfat enterprise in Altai region. According to him, each transaction was valued at more than 10 billion rubles.

Ministry of Finance contributed the government has submitted a list of approximately 30 companies with state participation for possible privatization, Minister Anton Siluanov reported earlier in December. Thanks to this, the budget can attract “tens to hundreds of billions.” As Mr. Siluanov noted, we are talking about reducing the share of participation in large companies, which will not lead to the loss of a controlling stake.

Leonid Uvarchev