The progressive personal income tax scale has brought an additional 38 billion to the federal budget.

In the first three months of 2025, the five-step personal income tax scale brought 37.8 billion rubles to the federal budget, according to Federal Tax Service statistics (Izvestia analyzed it). This is almost 40% more than in the same period last year, when the "tax on the rich" was collected by 27 billion.

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So far, the income from the "tax on the rich" is very small compared to income from personal income tax to regional and municipal budgets (fees are collected at the base rate of 13%). In the first quarter, it was 1.6 trillion rubles in total, according to the Federal Tax Service. For comparison, last year, in January–March, 1.4 trillion taxes were collected from the income of individuals.

"Nevertheless, the first quarter cannot be considered as a full-fledged marker of the assessment of tax revenues generated by progressive taxation. This is due to the fact that new taxpayers will appear next, and some taxpayers will move from one tax scale to another," said Vadim Zasko, Dean of the Faculty of Taxes, Audit and Business Analysis at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The main period of growth in tax revenues under progressive taxation will be in the fourth quarter, including due to a certain tradition of paying increased premiums at the end of the year, the expert said.

According to the financial plan for 2025, income tax receipts to the federal budget are estimated at 810.5 billion rubles, which is almost 140% more than last year, the press service of the Federal Tax Service explained to Izvestia. They clarified that while maintaining the growth rate of the wage fund, the specified parameters of the federal budget will be fully implemented.