{"id":38229,"date":"2025-09-25T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=38229"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:29:56","slug":"russia-officially-announced-plans-to-increase-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/russia-officially-announced-plans-to-increase-vat\/","title":{"rendered":"russia officially announced plans to increase VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ministry of finance of russia has prepared bills to increase VAT from 20% to 22% starting January 1, 2026. The ministry stated that the purpose of the increase is \u201cfinancing defense and security,\u201d meaning additional budget funds will go to the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Huge war expenditures, sanctions, and falling oil and gas revenues continue to drain russia\u2019s budget. This year, a record deficit of 14 trillion rubles (over $160 billion) has been recorded and continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Despite putin\u2019s statements about readiness for negotiations, the kremlin actually plans to continue the war, and the funding gap will be covered by ordinary russians. Previously, the russian government had already raised income and personal taxes for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>These actions by the russian authorities once again show that putin will fight as long as he can find money for the war, even at the cost of lowering russians\u2019 living standards. The only way to stop the war is to deprive putin of all means to finance it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ministry of finance of russia has prepared bills to increase VAT from 20% to 22% starting January 1, 2026. The ministry stated that the purpose of the increase is \u201cfinancing defense and security,\u201d meaning additional budget funds will go to the war against Ukraine. Huge war expenditures, sanctions, and falling oil and gas revenues continue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}