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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Taxes in Russia is not the main source of budget. Oil and gas are. RTFM 
P.S. When my tax will be risen up, we will get back to this discussion, ok?
P.P.S. I know a lot of people who don't pay taxes at all. Tax evasion is not a serious crime in Russia - if you will be caught (as a person), you can only be fined for that (no prison time like in the States or Germany, for example). So tax evasion is like a national sport here. Personally I'm not the one who plays those games, but many others do it. Everybody here knows (including the tax inspection, of course) that you have two salaries in Russia: a "white" one (the one you can see in those "average salary by country" Wikipedia stats) which you pay tax from and the "black" one, which you receive in an envelope (it at least twice more than the "white" one). So the "black" salary is the most part of income here. Even government-owned corporations like Gazprom use that scheme.
Black, white and gray salaries (use Google translate) |
If the government is relying on Oil and Gas instead of taxes then they're even more screwed. The prices for oil are falling and will continue to fall. Its why countries like Norway are heavily subsidising new startups. They know the oil party is over soon and they'd better have a backup plan for their economy.