We previously reported on the consequences of the “tax skimming” policy, when in 2025 the Crimean “authorities” sought “at any cost” to milk the remnants of “Crimean businesses” for twice the usual amount to meet the Kremlin’s rather hysterical demands for a “reduction in subsidies.”
As part of this campaign, the aggressor-controlled “fiscal officials” reported an alleged “unprecedented increase in revenues to the Crimean treasury,” allegedly amounting to “120% of the 2024 level,” with “a total of approximately 115 billion rubles,” in other words, they claimed an additional 17 billion rubles were fleeced from Crimean residents.
Meanwhile, both industry and agriculture in the occupied AR of Crimea demonstrated exclusively “negative growth” in 2025.
Following this, the aggressor’s federal statistics stated that for 2025, the “balance of financial activity of organizations” on the peninsula showed an “excess of losses over profits” for all types of “organizations” by 44.9 billion rubles. Moreover, in Russia itself, a comparable collapse of commercial activity at the regional level was observed last year only in the Kemerovo Region.
Against this “optimistic backdrop,” those same Crimean “fiscals,” namely, the criminal “deputy head of the federal tax service department” Sergei Kryukov, hastened to declare in mid-February that “record figures” would allegedly not be squeezed out of businesses in 2026, announcing a “plan for additional consolidated budget revenues for the year” of a “modest” 700 million.
However, this clearly forced “act of tax humanity” does not bode well for the remnants of the “Crimean economy,” since such “additional growth” in no way cancels out last year’s “record” figure of 115 billion, which has already become the “planned” figure for 2026.
Therefore, on the one hand, a new round of “massive degreasing” is planned for Crimean businesses in 2026, and on the other, all the announcements by key Crimean collaborators “about a gradual transition to a non-subsidized budget” will have no connection to reality.
It is obvious that with “increased revenue” measured in millions rather than billions, the “budget hole” will not only fail to shrink, but will also demonstrate the “stability of the foundations” so prized by the aggressor’s propaganda.
