Four Taxes Account for 94% of Income
The Federal Tax Service collected 2.54 trillion rubles for the federal budget between January and September of this year, 13 percent more than in the same period of last year. According to statistics published by the tax service yesterday, 94 percent of that income was derived from four taxes. Those are the value-added tax (36%), mineral use tax (31%), profit tax (16%) and the single social tax (11%).
Those figures are characteristic. In that period of 2005, VAT accounted for 41 percent of income and mineral use for 30 percent. In January-September 2006, VAT produced just 31 percent of income, and mineral use 37.5 percent, due to rising oil prices and new VAT legislation. VAT remained in second place in the first half of this year as well.
The contribution of the profit tax has been stable for several years, but income from the social tax grew 28.5 percent in the last year. The tax service attributes this increase to a decrease in under-the-table wages, but independent analysts say it is the result of wage increases. It can be noted that the increase in the social tax is practically identical to the increase in personal incomes in the same period.
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