Federal authorities are leaving cities with no taxes. The deputy of the Novosibirsk State Duma predicted the "increasing social tension" The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposes to reduce revenues for municipal budgets from personal income tax (NDFL). Now cities, urban districts, districts and village councils receive 15% of the personal income tax, 85% goes to regional budgets. The Russian authorities want to reduce the share of the settlements to 7%, said Anatoly Lokot (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), a member of the budget committee of the State Duma, a deputy from the Novosibirsk region. "The reform of local self-government continues, which has already led to a sharp reduction in the number of rural authorities. All this leads to manual control, to reducing the role of local government," Lokot wrote on his Telegram channel. "In the future there will be an accumulation of unsolved problems, with the impossibility of solving them on earth, and an increase in social tension. Especially in the vast expanses of Siberia," Lukot added. The largest city in Russia is Novosibirsk. At the same time, they are trying to plug holes in the regional budgets at the local level. For example, in the Trans-Baikal territory, the share of revenues for municipalities from the tax on the extraction of certain minerals (MET) was sharply reduced - from 45% to 10%. The Legislative Assembly, controlled by United Russia, approved the changes as proposed by Governor Alexander Osipov. Thus, the budgets of the Gazimuro-Zavodsky, Klarsky, Krymsky, Moguchinsky and Shilkinsky urban districts, where coal and gold are mined, may be sharply reduced. The change in Transbaikalia was accepted under the pretext of "eliminating budget imbalances" and "a more equal distribution of the tax base". The reforms are carried out against the background of a continuous increase in regional budget expenditures on the military. In the Novosibirsk region, these expenses are already approaching 10% of all expenses, even though the army falls under federal authority. Following the money, some powers may be taken away from the municipalities, observers say.

Federal authorities are leaving cities with no taxes. The deputy of the Novosibirsk State Duma predicted the "increasing social tension" The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposes to reduce revenues for municipal budgets from personal income tax (NDFL). Now cities, urban districts, districts and village councils receive 15% of the personal income tax, 85% goes to regional budgets. The Russian authorities want to reduce the share of the settlements to 7%, said Anatoly Lokot (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), a member of the budget committee of the State Duma, a deputy from the Novosibirsk region. "The reform of local self-government continues, which has already led to a sharp reduction in the number of rural authorities. All this leads to manual control, to reducing the role of local government," Lokot wrote on his Telegram channel. "In the future there will be an accumulation of unsolved problems, with the impossibility of solving them on earth, and an increase in social tension. Especially in the vast expanses of Siberia," Lukot added. The largest city in Russia is Novosibirsk. At the same time, they are trying to plug holes in the regional budgets at the local level. For example, in the Trans-Baikal territory, the share of revenues for municipalities from the tax on the extraction of certain minerals (MET) was sharply reduced - from 45% to 10%. The Legislative Assembly, controlled by United Russia, approved the changes as proposed by Governor Alexander Osipov. Thus, the budgets of the Gazimuro-Zavodsky, Klarsky, Krymsky, Moguchinsky and Shilkinsky urban districts, where coal and gold are mined, may be sharply reduced. The change in Transbaikalia was accepted under the pretext of "eliminating budget imbalances" and "a more equal distribution of the tax base". The reforms are carried out against the background of a continuous increase in regional budget expenditures on the military. In the Novosibirsk region, these expenses are already approaching 10% of all expenses, even though the army falls under federal authority. Following the money, some powers may be taken away from the municipalities, observers say.