UPDATE: Customs collection for Russia’s budget tops plan 159 bln rbl 2023

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MOSCOW, Dec 29 (PRIME) -- The Federal Customs Service contributed 6.623 trillion rubles to the Russian budget in 2023, a 6.4% rise on the year, topping the plan by 158.6 billion rubles, the authority said in a statement on Friday.

Acting Director Ruslan Davydov said in a video published in the service’s official YouTube channel that the service might contribute 150–160 billion rubles more to the Russian budget as compared with the planned figure in 2023.

“The work on transfers of payments to the federal budget on time will remain an absolute priority of the customs service… The over-fulfillment (of the plan) should reach 150–160 billion rubles this year,” he said.

Davydov added that “in spite of all the efforts of our opponents on destabilization of the external trade of Russia and in spite of the blasts of the Nord Stream pipelines” the service successfully fulfilled and even over-fulfilled the 6.464 trillion ruble planned task for transfers of payments to the federal budget this year.

(90.3041 rubles – U.S. $1)

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