Regional Budgets in Q1 2023

Alexander N. Deryugin – Acting Head of Department for Budget Policy of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy; Senior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The transfer of taxpayers to a single tax account from January 1, 2023, which is very convenient for them, has created a lot of issues for regional budgets. Thus, the postponement of tax payments, more rapid mutual repayment of obligations to pay and reimburse overpaid taxes, as well as the reduction of the period of refunds for property and social deductions have led to a decrease in the regional budgets’ tax revenues growth rate, making them more volatile and less predictable, and the need for additional borrowing.

Key words: regions’ budgets, revenues of regional budgets, expenditures of regional budgets, intergovernmental fiscal transfers, regional debt.

JEL-codes: H61, H62, H63, H71, H72, H74, H77.