Russian billionaires: Business conduct in Russia, pay taxes abroad

The Western news agency reuters publishes an article, which reported on the reluctance of representatives of Russian big business to fully pay taxes in russia. In the material expressed "The negative effect of the policy of deoffshorization in russia. " the authors of the material in the reuters write that the Russian money, keeping the business in Russia are not Russian tax residents. This status they have due to the fact that Russia spend less than six months (for the entire fiscal year). In the end this situation allows a number of Russian billionaires do not declare their income in the tax system of the Russian Federation. Leads the review of Vladimir potanin, included in top-10 Russian forbes list:they can criticize, say that they are unpatriotic, but the fact remains — the budget that you have lost. An excerpt from the material:the other two members of the list of 100 richest businessmen of Russia according to forbes magazine, told reuters that they have ceased to be tax resident, not to obey the law.

They spoke on condition of anonymity, as he feared to hurt their business interests in the country. For reference: according to the magazine "Forbes" two richest people in Russia have the status of almost half a trillion dollars. From this we can conclude what loses the Russian budget due to the fact that many representatives of big business continue to evade the Russian tax system, taking assets offshore. It is strange that the Russian economic guru (for example, alexei kudrin) no ideas to offer on how to attract Russian billionaires to pay taxes in russia. But on the need to increase retirement age from the same n-kudrin country hears constantly.