Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview: RTHe said that the revenues of the country’s budget system for the January-February period exceeded expectations.
In this respect, he believes that those who predict the instability of this system will be very upset.
“According to the February results (this information has not yet been heard anywhere by the analysts), we see that more revenue was generated in January-February of this year than in January-February of last year. The minister said that plans for the year as a whole are more modest.
According to him, in the first two months of 2023, the budget system of the Russian Federation received more than 5 trillion rubles of tax revenue, which exceeded the same indicator of the previous year. He pointed out that the Treasury now distributes these revenues according to the levels of the budget system.
Ministry of Finance of Russia in February reported About the record federal budget deficit in January – 1.76 trillion rubles. The agency explains the rate increase with a sharp increase in costs due to accelerated VAT refunds and expedited contracting. For comparison, the liquid part of the National Wealth Fund is about 6 trillion rubles.