The Ministry of Finance is not going to raise the personal income tax rate for citizens with an income of more than 5 million rubles. in year

The Ministry of Finance of Russia does not plan to raise the personal income tax rate for Russians with an income above 5 million rubles. in year. The agency considers the experience of introducing a progressive personal income tax scale as positive. This was announced by Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Sazanov.

Mr. Sazanov noted that over the past year, the Ministry of Finance collected an additional 83 billion rubles. by raising the rate to 15%. “When we introduced an element of a progressive scale, there were fears that sounded from various experts that part of the salaries could go into the shadows and tax revenues would decrease. In fact, we don’t see it. The experience turned out to be quite successful, ”he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to him, by the end of 2022, about 130 billion rubles are expected. additional revenues, in 2023 – about 144 billion rubles. “That is, we, on the contrary, are seeing a certain progression, we see that no one is going into the shadows and personal income tax is being paid steadily,” he said.

In Russia, they switched to a progressive personal income tax scale in 2021. For Russians who earn more than 5 million rubles. per year, the personal income tax rate is 15%, for all others – 13%. Federal Tax Service of Russia informedAccording to the results of the first quarter of 2022, due to the 15% rate, the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation received 122 billion rubles, or 2.9 times more than last year.

Olesya Pavlenko