The tax reform turned out to be a little less predatory than expected - but still unfair

After long conversations and many leaks, the Ministry of Finance introduced a bill on tax reform to the government. Its parameters are very different from the expected ones, but the main principle remained in place. And this is no more fair distribution of the tax load that Putin promised.

“What a blessing, I was mistaken!” I thought, having read the parameters of the tax reform, the bill of which the Ministry of Finance submitted to the government. However, with a more thorough consideration of its parameters, I realized that there was no: the sky did not fall to the earth, the authorities did not become more merciful. However, about everything in order.

First, about the good: the increased personal income tax rate will be used from an annual income not higher than 1 million rubles, as expected, and above 2.4 million rubles. This is no longer 83 thousand a month, but as many as 200 thousand donovalogical salaries. That is, today it is the salary of “clean” above 174 thousand rubles. That is, not every fifth Russian will grow tax, but several percent: the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov spoke about two million people ( 3.2% ), the ex-Zamglavs of the Central Bank Economist Sergei Aleksashenko believes that

The increase in tax will affect about five million, but this is still less than 10% of the workers.

In general, the new personal income tax looks like this:

up to 2.4 million - 13%;

more than 2.4 million - 15%;

more than 5 million - 18%;

more than 20 million - 20%;

more than 50 million - 22%.

Bloomberg Economics economist Alexander Isakov notes that the personal income tax scale turned out to be quite flat, and believes that already in the next electoral cycle the upper tax bar will be raised to 30–35%.

On this, the good news ends and begin ... let's say, all sorts.

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