The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, proposed introducing an increased tax on “suspiciously rich” people in Russia. The politician wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
Such a proposal he had made, commenting on the proposal to limit the Ministry of Labor “suspiciously poor” families of payments for children aged three to seven years. “I propose to begin with introducing an increased tax on the” suspiciously rich “. At the same time, Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption should be ratified. Let me remind you that it establishes the requirement that the income and expenditures of the” bureaucratic estate “match,” he wrote.
On January 1, Russia began to operate a law on the taxation of interest on deposits of individuals over one million rubles. Tax collection on income received in 2021 will begin in 2022. Interest on salary accounts will not be taxed. At the same time, citizens are not obliged to declare this income, since the tax will be calculated automatically – based on information about the amount of interest paid to the citizen.
Earlier, the Ministry of Finance explained that not the bank deposits themselves will be taxed, but only interest on them. The department noted that when placing large amounts on deposits with monthly interest payments, Russians can avoid paying taxes or reduce them if the income from the deposit is distributed over two or three tax periods.