Tax revenues to Russian budget system rise 8% to 49 trln rubles in 10M 2025

MOSCOW. Nov 21 (Interfax) - Federal Tax Service revenues to the Russian budget system rose 8% to 49 trillion rubles in January-October, according to materials prepared for President Vladimir Putin's meeting with Federal Tax Service Head Daniil Yegorov.

The increase was 3.5 trillion rubles in absolute terms.

Tax revenues to the federal budget rose 5%. Non-oil and gas revenues administered by the Federal Tax Service increased by 3 trillion rubles, while oil and gas revenues decreased by 2 trillion rubles.

Yegorov said at the meeting that oil and gas revenues made up 30% of the federal budget.

"In terms of how we are forecasting the end of the year, we expect to fulfil the federal budget with 8% growth, which means we will reach around 27 trillion rubles - that is indeed in line with the forecasts which are built into the budget," Yegorov said.

He also mentioned the results of the tax amnesty from the first half, which was announced at the beginning of the year as part of efforts to combat business fragmentation - if an entrepreneur voluntarily refrains from fragmenting his business and the tax authorities do not then discover any violations, unpaid taxes, penalties and fines for similar violations in 2022-2024 will not be levied and the corresponding debt will be written off. "We can already summarize the preliminary results this year: we have 25,000 companies who were entitled to the amnesty and who used it - that is over 11,000 taxpayer groups. What has this led to? On the one hand, they have saved around 20 billion rubles in taxes. On the other hand, we are forecasting over 23 billion rubles of taxes this year, which is also important, it seems," Yegorov said.

He said that over 55% of taxpayers had independently clarified their tax obligations in the first nine months, without any control measures from the tax authorities.

Yegorov said that taxpayers still had questions about the volume of documents which the tax service requested from them. He said that the volume of documents requested had decreased by almost 40% this year. "That means that there are 2.5 million documents that we no longer request - our internal data are sufficient for us to be able to create forecasts and form our own analysis on how taxpayers are working," he said.

Yegorov said that unpaid taxes paid into the budget had increased 24% thanks to the now automated collection of tax debts, while taxpayers now have access to extensions and payments in installments. This year, extensions were granted in a sum exceeding 1 trillion rubles, allowing 2 million jobs to be retained. These companies paid over 2 trillion rubles in taxes.