Extralegal income of Russians causes concern for tax service

SARATOV, Oct 8 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Federal Tax Service has detected a serious difference between the officially registered earnings of Russians and their spending, which indicates under-the-table wages, the authority’s deputy head Svetlana Bondarchuk said on Tuesday.

“The data of the Federal State Statistics Service and the Federal Tax Service of Russia indicate a serious increase of spending over earnings of citizens, even taking into notice a serious loan debt burden. It was 44.8%, or 458 billion rubles, in the republic of Tatarstan in 2017, 31.5%, or 141 billion rubles, in the Saratov Region,” she said.

The problem is acute in all Russian regions and the legalization of income is being carried out too slowly, she added.

(64.8259 rubles – U.S. $1)

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