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Izvestia
June 21, 2002
524 MILLIONAIRES DECLARE THEIR INCOMES
[from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html]
On June 20, Russia's Ministry of Taxes and Duties published official data on results of the income declaration campaign of 2002. No sensation - instead of the promised 10 million tax returns, individuals submitted to the tax bodies only 2.6 million declarations.
On the whole, the Ministry of Taxes and Duties admits that the declaration campaign was a success and yielded the same results as last year. At the same time, there were received 524 declarations from individuals whose incomes exceed 10 million rubles. The ministry officials note that among them were those who earned over 100 million rubles last year.
These figures do not make the real indication of the number of millionaires in the country. Thus far, the ministry's officials said, it is generally impossible to draw conclusions on the level of the population's incomes, since far from always tracing and inspecting the people's sources of income is a success. It is only clear that the Russian millionaires and multi-millionaires prefer residing big cities. Thus, their number in Moscow is 326, in St. Petersburg - 33. For those who haven't accounted fairly the Ministry of Taxes and Duties promises visits of the tax police in the near future.
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