Citizens are willing to pay high taxes to support the poor

According to the VTsIOM poll, cited by RBC, 54% of respondents agreed to pay more taxes to help the poor. 45% prefer to pay high taxes with confidence that this will provide them with confidence in the wide availability and high quality of public services. 33% expressed a desire to pay less taxes, not believing that public services will certainly be of adequate quality. 28% chose the low tax option because it would allow people to manage their money in the best possible way.

83% favored a progressive scale of taxation, and only 13% favored an equal rate regardless of the taxpayer's income.

Recall that with In January, the tax on income from deposits exceeding one million rubles came into force. This tax was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but not all citizens know about the tax. According to a survey by Otkritie Bank, only 44% of Russians are informed about it.