Russian Businesses to Pay $5.7Bln in ‘Voluntary’ Budget Contributions – The Bell
The forecast would set a record after 384 billion rubles had already been collected by mid-August, The Bell reported.
- Russian authorities expect to receive 471.4 billion rubles in voluntary contributions from businesses to the national budget in 2026, according to documents reviewed by The Bell accompanying the government's three-year draft budget.
- These payments aim to plug a widening budget deficit amid record war spending, following an annual meeting in March where President Vladimir Putin asked billionaries to contribute toward the war effort.
- Authorities collected 251.3 billion rubles from companies in 2025, and by mid-August this year, they had already gathered 384 billion rubles in voluntary contributions from businesses.
- Although Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, described payments as entirely voluntary, contributions occur alongside nationalizations affecting companies worth more than 7 trillion rubles.
- From 2027 through 2029, the government anticipates much smaller voluntary contributions of 1.9 billion rubles annually, even as it plans to introduce new taxes and increase income rates to 22%.
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Russian Businesses to Pay $5.7Bln in ‘Voluntary’ Budget Contributions – The Bell
Russia expects to receive 471.7 billion rubles ($5.7 billion) in voluntary contributions from businesses this year as it seeks to plug a widening budget deficit amid record war spending, The Bell reported, citing documents accompanying the government’s three-year budget bill.
Putin reportedly asked Russian business leaders to help fund the war. Moscow expects 471 billion rubles in ‘voluntary’ contributions from companies this year.
Russian authorities expect to receive 471.4 billion rubles in voluntary contributions from businesses to the national budget in 2026, according to an explanatory note accompanying the draft 2027–2029 budget reviewed by The Bell.
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Russian authorities expect to receive 471.7 billion rubles (approximately $5.7 billion, or approximately PLN 20.8 billion) in "voluntary" contributions from businesses to the state budget this year. This comes at a time of record war spending and a rapidly growing public finance deficit.
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