Some days ago, the fake “state council” of the occupiers rubber-stamped the “modified republican budget” sent down to them from the Kremlin, in which the deficit increased from 3 to 15 billion rubles.
It is not specified where the occupiers will actually get the funds to cover this additional “hole”; the aggressor’s propaganda broadcasts only some vague reasoning, aimed at readers far removed from financial issues, about “reducing the balance of the republican budget funds in treasury accounts to the level at the beginning of the year.”
However, more about the current “optimistic budget situation” was let slip in August by the “leadership of the republican tax authority”, admitting that they were given the task of “increasing the efficiency of filling the consolidated budget”, and “by pure coincidence”, exactly by 15 billion.
Let us add that in 2024 alone, the “tax authorities” were able to milk just under 97 billion in “taxes and fees” from the peninsula, which is no more than 45% of the “republican budget”, the rest was the Kremlin’s “financial drip”, cut by almost 100 billion since 2025.
The “tax authorities” clearly have nowhere to find an extra 15 billion, and in addition to the classic attempts to collect from the remains of businesses “for subsequent periods”, now the illegal tax authorities “solemnly declared” that they will hunt in Crimea for sellers of cars and real estate, landlords.
Also, “priority targets” are declared to be such “socially harmful defaulters” as photographers, dentists, fitness trainers, hairdressers and manicurists.
There is a rather “thin link” in these “breakthrough financial plans”: since neither manicurists nor even hairdressers will voluntarily pay their last money to the “tax office”, the expenses of the punishers for identifying, capturing and exposing this “new oil” will be, to put it mildly, comparable to the size of the “confiscated unearned income”.
