Portal runews24. Ru reports that experts of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation have calculated that the amount of "gray" wages is 10 trillion rubles each year.
In the main areas of the budget, tax and customs tariff policy for 2018-2020, it is indicated that taxes from this amount are not paid at all or only partially.
The department also stresses that in case of expanding the possibilities of tax administration, there is a risk that the country's economy will increasingly begin to face the problem of sub-optimal structure of the tax burden. And the transition from the gray zone to the white can be painful because of the increased burden of direct labor taxes.
In the Ministry of Finance, in order to solve the problem, they propose to create additional economic incentives for the so-called salary wage, changing the structure of the tax burden by reducing the rate of direct taxes on labor and increasing indirect.