Tax fairness: what is a progressive scale and what risks does it pose?

On Thursday, March 28, at 13:00, there will be an exclusive live broadcast from the MK press center dedicated to the taxation system in Russia.

Taxes will be higher for the rich and lower for the poor. Initially, this is how many experts interpreted President Putin’s words about “a more equitable distribution of the tax burden,” which the head of state spoke about on the eve of the elections. However, if you believe the words of Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, everything will not be quite like that. He proposed increasing the personal income tax rate to 15% for persons with an income of 1 million rubles per year. It turns out that people with a salary of 83 thousand per month will have to pay more than today’s level – it is unlikely that in modern Russia such people can be classified as “super-rich”. If the tax schedule is indeed changed in this way, the progressive system risks hitting the middle class in a big way.

Can such a distribution of the tax burden be considered fair or is the measure aimed solely at replenishing the budget?

This and much more will be discussed by: Chief Researcher of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Doctor of Economics Igor Nikolaev, Director of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Alexey Zubets and Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Alexander Safonov.