Among the public companies in Russia last year, the leaders in terms of dividends were the oil and gas sector and metallurgists, which were recently accused of “fattening” states. It is reported by RBC with reference to the study of ITI Capital.
At the same time, the share of the oil and gas sector in the total amount of remuneration to shareholders decreased from 51 to 33 percent, and the share of metallurgical on the contrary rose to 33 percent. In third place were financial companies (for the year their share increased from 13 to 18 percent).
Analysts ITI Capital were calculated that in 2020, 2.6 trillion rubles were paid in the 2020th shareholders of the top 50 companies.
At the end of May, the President Andrei Belousov said that the metallurgical companies “fallen” the state about 100 billion rubles of unpaid taxes from the profits obtained at the expense of a successful market situation during a coronavirus pandemic.
In the Kremlin, they answered this that in the situation with super-profits of Russian metallurgists, it makes no sense to look for those perpetrators, because it is “economic life.” Later, explaining his statement, Belousov said that the government has no purpose to take additional income from metallurgists, and simply need to be put in the parameters of the projects that have risen due to prices for metal products.