Member of the Public Chamber (OP), head of the Neopharm and Stolichki pharmacy chains, Yevgeny Nifantiev, proposed increasing the personal income tax (PIT) for people with annual earnings of over 5 million from 15% to 18%.
“If we increase the tax on the rich by another 3%, that is, from 15% to 18%, this will allow us to collect an additional 100 billion rubles a year – funds that need to be directed to provide pensioners with free medicines,” he said. he is “RIA Novosti”.
Since this year, new tax rules have come into force in Russia. In accordance with them, personal income tax for persons with an annual income of more than 5 million rubles. is 15%, not 13%, as for everyone else. It is assumed that the measure will help raise an additional 60 billion rubles. in 2021, 64 billion rubles. – in 2022, 68.5 billion rubles. – in 2023, these funds are planned to be directed to the treatment of children with severe and rare diseases through the Circle of Kindness Foundation.
According to Nifantiev, people with high incomes will treat the additional tax increase with understanding, since it will not be critical for them. In addition, according to the representative of the OP, in this way the demand of the Russian society for fairness and a progressive scale of taxes will be satisfied.
On March 10, State Duma deputy from the LDPR party Sergei Katasonov submitted for consideration to the lower house of parliament a bill on the introduction of a progressive tax scale in Russia. It assumes the abolition of personal income tax for citizens with an annual income of no more than 204 thousand rubles, that is, 17 thousand rubles. per month, and its gradual increase depending on higher earnings – up to 35% for those whose incomes exceed 100 million rubles.
A progressive scale of taxes operated in Russia until 2001. Depending on the level of income, citizens paid personal income tax in the amount of 13 to 30%. Then a flat tax of 13% was introduced. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin called this decision revolutionary.
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