The budget received almost 300 billion in revenue unaccounted for in the forecast in 2024

The Russian treasury received 283.5 billion in revenue unaccounted for in the forecast last year, according to the report of the Accounting Chamber, which was reviewed by Izvestia.

State-owned calculation: in 2024, the Federal Property Management Agency provided budget revenues of over 473 billion rubles

According to the auditors, 99% of the indicated amount is accounted for by gratuitous receipts and confiscation of property due to corruption crimes. In the first case, we are talking about voluntary payments to the treasury in the form of inter-budget transfers, grants, subsidies and subventions. They are also required to be made by foreign companies leaving Russia. In 2024, the budget received almost 162 billion rubles of such payments.

Some of the foreign brands that stopped operating in Russia back in 2022-2023 completed the sale of their Russian assets only in 2024. Among them, for example, the Carlsberg brewing company, the Danone food company, and the Unilever consumer goods manufacturer. They accounted for about a quarter of all revenues from outgoing enterprises last year — about 70 billion rubles, said Anastasia Priklyova, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

In addition, the second major item is funds from confiscation of property due to corruption offenses, which accounted for 114.5 billion rubles.

The money from the "confiscation" is quite volatile — it cannot be a permanent source of income, and it cannot be predicted to balance the budget of the Social Fund, the press service of the Ministry of Finance told Izvestia. For such purposes, receipts are needed that can be calculated, the department clarified.

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Out of the planned order: the budget received almost 300 billion of revenue unaccounted for in the forecast