We previously reported that, as part of the Kremlin’s “enhanced fiscal policy,” the puppet “governments” of the occupied peninsula have begun rubber-stamping “new rates” for “regional taxes” starting in 2026.
Specifically, in occupied Sevastopol, starting in 2026, they will “index the cost of patents for individual entrepreneurs,” increasing the “annual payment” by 14.4%, which
“will cover all individual entrepreneurs operating under the patent system: service providers, carriers, retailers, and landlords.”
The occupiers plan to “ticket” an additional 6,000 individuals and receive “an additional 31 million rubles per year.”
We also reported that the occupiers would increase the “transport tax,”
primarily “for vehicles with 100-150 and 150-200 horsepower.” For the latter, the “rate” would rise “from 25 to 40 rubles per horsepower,” after which they hope to “milk” about 13 million rubles in 2026, and about 118 million starting in 2027.
As a reminder, starting in 2026, the occupiers will sharply increase both the “income tax” and the “value-added tax” throughout the all aggressor-controlled territory.
Regarding this, Sevastopol residents sarcastically remarked on social media that “how good things were for us back then, when we lived so poorly,” and noted that the application of the “new rates” “will inevitably lead to the closure of many individual entrepreneurs, higher prices, and inflation.”
And now, by mid-December, the aggressor’s propaganda has declared that the Sevastopol “government” has allegedly “heard the pain of taxpayers” and is “rushing to their aid” with a “bill to reduce property taxes.”
Naturally, this applies to the expected hardships of ordinary citizens and businessmen, not described above, that Sevastopol “new, living oil” on which the Kremlin is counting on building a financial war machine in 2026.
The “property taxes” are promised to be reduced exclusively for such a “vulnerable and disadvantaged” category as “owners of unfinished construction projects designed for apartment buildings,” and the “cadastral value of the property” for these “victims” will have to exceed 300 million rubles.
Naturally, against the backdrop of the construction crisis and the curtailment of “mortgage programs,” the main group of “beneficiaries” will be the developers themselves, who failed to sell their “growth-proof apartments” to local collaborators and Russian colonizers, leaving thousands of unsold square meters “on their balance sheets.”
Obviously, this rather narrow “group of sworn friends” includes no one without a “corrupt loop” in the city gauleiter’s entourage, and therefore the current “government’s touching concern” for their financial well-being is entirely understandable.
Even more tragicomic was the announcement of the “cancellation of the regional tax on gambling in Sevastopol,” which the same propaganda outlet billed as yet another “concern for business and the population.”
The point here is solely that these “insane funds,” which amount to a whopping 1.7 million rubles in 2025, will be “transferred from city revenues to federal ones,” meaning that there will essentially be no “cancellation.”
