Taxes in Russia. Is Health care free?
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Today we are going to talk about taxes in Russia. I think it's an important topic. Many people, foreigners and especially Russians, understand taxes in Russia the wrong way.
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That was a very comprehensive explaination.
thanks for the interesting video 😊❤
Does it really matter too much? You have no freedom in Russia,the little one that was there in the beginning of the Putin era was soon dissapearing,..who can enjoy cheap taxes,cheap gas and possible perks like that when the air you breath smells of oppression...?
I can enjoy it. 😎
You enjoy high tax high food .you are very rich .You parents very rich.other parents kids not rich na baby. USA 10%people rich .50% middle classes people homeless. You not read USA britain france conditions homeless people.
Thanks for all the information you give.
Ksenia your English is amazing! - For a Russian citizen who lives in Russia and speaks mostly Russian in daily life; well you do a fantastic job of speaking to us in English. Have a great week.
Interesting information, yes it appears Russia's taxes are not as low as 13%, but it is also important to point out that the employer taxes that one's employer pays as a percentage of his employees salary is common in almost all countries. So if someone pays 30% in taxes in a country their employer is still paying another 10% or 20% in taxes that the employee doesn't see or think about. However it is no secret. So taxes in Russia perhaps are still much lower, but 13% is accurate from the perspective that it is all a salary earner will have to be responsible for paying. Let's not fool ourselves if the invisible taxes our employers pay on the worker's behalf disappeared do think they employer will benevolently give everyone raises equal to the former tax, they will keep it as part of extra corporate earnings.
Hello KSENIA, don't move to the UK. They pay a lot of Taxes. Whewwwwww
The illeagal migrants don't. We subsidise their living for free.
Fascinating. Are oblasts/republics/krais able to impose taxes too, like how states can in the US? Or is it all centrally controlled?
Ksenia on a completely different topic! I managed to get a red woolen hat like yours in the UK for my niece's 14th birthday and she loves it. Thank you💯, I had no idea until I saw yours👏☺
Hello Ksenyia! The Russian taxation system is broadly similar to the system in the Republic of Ireland....Interesting vlog! 👍🇮🇪🍻
Très intéressant votre vidéo sur les taxassions ! Ici en France, il paraîtrait que nous soyons les champions du monde des impôts et des taxes. Ceci étant, le sytème de protection sociale est très bon !
Taxes are high in USA but sounds like just as high in Russia!
Looks like countries address the same national needs through similar but different legislations. For comparison the UK has tax codes graduated by amount of income, starting with a personal tax free allowance then going up in bands of income tax starting at 20%. Those employed have this deducted PAYE (Pay as you earn) by employer, those in self employ,ment fill in tax forms and may pay annually at the end of the tax year.
Then there is National Insurance which pays for most of healthcare, unemployment benefits if required and pensions. This has employee and employer contributions, the table of how this is done looks very complicated, hard to copy paste and keep formatting of the table.
Then there are separately other allowances such as for children or coming below certain levels of income to alleviate poverty, so they are means tested against income for qualification.
Then there is value added tax, VAT, added to the purchase of goods or certain goods, at 20% most things, 5% some things, 0% some other things.
...UK Income tax rates
UK Income Tax rates and bands.:
Band Taxable income Tax rate
Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0%
Basic rate. £12,571 to £50,270 20%
Higher rate £50,271 to £125,140 40%
Additional rate over £125,140 45%
I have never known a country with out a tax, income or some other tax. taxes come in different flavors such as sales, income, wholesale, business, national, provincial, state, social security, state, oil tax, state taxes, vehicle taxes, estate taxes etc., etc, Oh by the way, I never met a temporary tax. And not to worry, Mr. Corruption does not discriminate against any country: he resides in all of them !
In the USA the employee pay: federal tax, state tax, local tax, city tax, medicare, medicaid, social security
Насчёт размеров домов и квартир в России и в забугорье, автор жестоко ошибается. И не удивительно. В России про западные страны слишком много приукрашенных сказочек ходит, которым люди верят без оглядки и проверки.
Я тоже верил, пока из России не уехал и не узнал, как все на самом деле есть.
Nice to see you online again.
Very interesting video..sounds as if tax are very similar in most countries..Nice to see you as always..I pray your Mom and Brother are doing well..Many Blessings and stay safe 🤗🙏💞
You should realize the US is the same way
, only worse.
In the US there is a progressive tax instead of a flat tax like in Russia. This means that the poor pay only 10% tax while the richest almost 40%.
Lol. False. Only applies to the salaried and middle class. If you are within the upper echelon with capital (Stocks, real estate etc) rather than salaried income you pay way less due to deductions and loop holes built into the tax system.
40% is paid only on amount over certain threshold.
If you earn say 200k, you dont pay 80K in tax. Works out on average more like 25-30% which is 50-60k on 200k.
Progressive tax is unfair, that's why there are a lot of loopholes.
You may have already done it? Could you tell us about "property rights". Is it the same for everyone (if you are Orthodox, Jews, Asians, Muslims?...) what is the site if you want to buy property in Russia? What is the amount of property tax?
are you allowed to buy real estate in "an oblast" if you are not ethnically from that "oblast"?
50,000 rubles is = 634.50$ a month minus the 13% tax = 602.02 $s a month here she would be considered poor and even poorer is she had kiddos. I have argued this point with many Russian people, about the places outside of Moscow/St. Petersburg. It’s like beating a stump 😂 Retired people on pensions, I don’t know how they even get to eat, their apts/houses aren’t free. Electricity, Gas, nothing is free. They don’t always get free medicines either. Did she say how much her bank loan was for her mortgage? In order to pay for this war I think they are going to increase business tax and therefore will have to increase employee tax or start letting people go. Russia has created a huge nightmare for the people they just don’t get it yet, well some do the Oligarchs have taken their money and left the first day of the war. EXCELLENT Video.
602.02 $s a month is ok over there, they dont have huge mortgages, rent. Many share with family.
How much cashier earns in US after tax?
Keep in mind that food, rent, bills cost less in RU, loaf of fresh dark bread is 50c, in my city same bread would be considered "artisan" and cost 3-5 bucks. Meat , fruit and veg are 2-4 time cheaper than In Australia.
Its not about fancy numbers, its how much it buys you.
No because for example big max index is 1.77 in Russia. In USA it's 7.73. Meaning that Russians can buy a bigmax for 1.77 USD while American 7.73 USD. Now we do the math. 7.73 devide by 1.77 is 4.37. Now multiply 602 by 4.37 and you get 2630.74 equalent of USD that they earn there. Median income of US citizen is 2.594.42. So by this logic someone who earns 634 USD in Russia can buy the same amount of food like someone in USA who earns 2630.74 USD. Here I'm not even talking about rent, internet, gas etc. Just look at GDP nominal of Russia and compare is with GDP in PPP
Different USA every item price high vs russia price low.usa salary high but every item usa very high .that s because usa price high but homeless people maximum. Russia food room price low no homelessness people.
You read usa vs russia lifestyle
@@manjusingh-ri7uf There are many homeless people in Russia, what are you talking about. We don’t pay 7.00 for a big Mack either.
Wow, that is one regressive tax system!
People always forget how many taxes the poorest people pay for everyday goods and services.
Sounds a lot like the US. Employees rarely know that employers spend 30% or more on top of the salaries that employees get. I think we call it payroll tax. Plus health care if offered. I’m not a business owner but when my CEO got really sick and was hospitalized for months her main worry was payroll tax which I had to find a way to pay. It was a huge amount. That’s how I found out how much extra money it costs businesses to have employees and why some companies prefer to hire freelancers. Interesting stuff!
It’s a bit odd that people don’t see the difference between their gross and net wage. Financial education should be a course in schools everywhere.
In Canada we pay a lot of taxes. Generally everybody except insurance companies must pay 13% tax on everything. This includes your food, services (like a lawyer or bank charge), alcohol, drugs, gasoline, etc. When you work for some company they deduct tax from your pay check. This includes income tax and unemployment insurance. Sometimes people lose their job so then they might get paid from the government - unemployment insurance. We do not pay tax on rent. The more money you earn the more tax you must pay. We do not pay for health care. The government pays for a lot of things. We have to pay for drugs. We have to pay for dental care. Also, everybody has to file a tax return. Then depending on how much money you make you might get a little refund. But usually you don't. Businesses have to pay taxes too. But there are taxes on things like alcohol that are added to the cost of alcohol. So you might pay $10 for something. It includes hidden taxes. But then the government charges us another 13% tax on top of that. Now the government has increased this carbon tax beginning April 1 2023. It is a tax to pay for climate change except the government has no climate change program. It means the tax on gasoline is going up. It means the tax on natural gas is going up and then we must pay 13% on top of that. Also, if you buy a used car you must pay 13% tax. If you sell the same car the buyer must pay 13% tax. We sometimes pay 13% tax on things that have been taxed - tax on tax. If you sell your house ( houses here cost a lot) there is a tax called land transfer tax. Then you must also pay 13% tax on the land transfer tax. We are taxed a lot in Canada. It is because the politicians spend so much money. Our prime minister this year gave Haiti about $160 MILLION DOLLARS. Our prime minister lives free ( the government gives him a nice house to live in and pays for his food). He is paid $379 000 a year. After only four years in office he can get a nice pension when he retires at age 65. After working for over 40 years and paying so much in taxes to the government we do not get much pension money.
I think the best place to go is Portugal. It is warm and cheap there.
It sounds like Russia is not a cheap place to live. The most important thing is to stay healthy. For that exercise some ( Qi-Gong, Tai Chi, Yoga). There are places around the world where people live to be 100 or longer without any physical problems. These places are called Blue Zones. You can learn about them on RUclips and why these people live so long and so well. Money is important but good health is everything.
Cheers!
We only have 6% tax on everyday goods and services in Alberta. Except food/groceries, feminine hygiene products and maybe a few other things??. We have no provincial sales tax. But everything else is the same for the most part.
To be fair, you are paying for your healthcare and everything the government sponsors because they get the money for those services from you, the taxpayers through taxes. There is likely itemization of these things on your tax bills. So you pay for them, just not at the point of service. Nothing is ever free, just a matter of who is paying for it.
Also, those taxes pay for lavish spending by the governor general and others. So when the government wastes vast amounts of money and then makes us pay more in taxes is called slavery. @@mariahsmom9457
Russia state run without chash. Good luck.😢
sounds overtly complicated, like on a US pay stub you have income tax, social security, FICA, medicare tax, and a few others. just like here in the US people pay a lot in taxes and the roads, water pipes, sewer pipes, and bridges go unfixed.
Well, so it is. Schools, universities, health care and so on ..... are financed by taxes. Everyone contributes after ability and receives after needs..... in Norway a third of our salary goes to taxes and the employer pays some additional to pensionfunds and to have you employed.......
If I need an operation or a stay at the hospital I pay nothing. But consultations at a doctors office cost about 20$ - 30$ and I pay a small amount for medicins. If I reach an amount of about 200$ in course of a year, I pay nothing more for the rest of the year.
It's the same in Ireland, the very rich pay very little tax.
Says Bono who never had a trust or offshore arrangements 😂😂😂
Why not subtitles?!?
Hi Ksenia. Just a little help with your pronunciation of - entrepreneurs. You are almost saying interpreters.
Entrepreneurs sounds French. ( On-tra-pra-neurs ). Other suggestions are welcome. I enjoy your videos. Stay safe.
Interesting........look for big changes-and not in your favor-as time goes on. This war has consequences on finances in your country.
Yes Russia will be in bad shape end of 2023. Financial collapse is coming.
And The USA😳
@@berylmadison2363 USA will be fine.
@@paulj2948 Sure if you ride a bike to work..
That is just how it is done in Germany! I had a salary of about 1400 Deutsche Mark at the time but I only received 800 a month in my bank account after all taxes. The highest was health
6% of 2 mil USD is about 120.000 USD vs 13% of 50.000 rubles which is about 5700 rubles,around 67 USD. There for, a rich person pays a lot more taxes.
The thing is if Russsia will increase taxes by a lot a lot of rich people have options to pay zero tax by offshores and this is not going to be good for the economy overall. What I can agree with you is this: people with low salaries should not be paying taxes.
WOW, you’ve have done your homework. Taxes in Russia seem just as complicated as taxes in the U.S. Thanks for such a detailed & comprehensive explanation. I need someone to explain U.S. taxes now.😊
That was a very interesting analysis of Russian taxation. I also just assumed tax totals were much lower there. Interestingly, the different methods and tier structures of taxation are quite similar to ours in the U.S... if you are a CEO or oligarch that makes $1,000,000 per year you can afford the smartest lawyers and tax experts to find all the tax loopholes that reduce your taxes. Спасибо.
It is hard to know that for a fact. I've lived in the US for 70 years and I've watched taxes rise continuously. And that was while we were growing our budget deficit from billions to 31 trillion. That deficit continues to grow, so our taxes will continue to grow. Russia has a much, much smaller deficit, so they are in better shape in that regard.
My great grandmother's name was Xenia ❤ such a beautiful name!!!
How is infrastructure supported? Things like road and bridge construction and maintenance?
Here in Belgium: Our taxes on your gross salary is 25% (employer pay on your salary), then employee pay 13,07% social security tax and then up to 50% personal tax. Taxes are between 60 and 70% in totaal. Then we have huge taxes on Gas, electricity etc... We even have a sugar tax - not talking about VAT here but another separate tax.
Here in the US we theoretically have a progressive tax system (you pay a higher rate as your income goes up). This works for upto about the middle class. As you describe in Russia, in the US the very rich pay a much lower tax rate than even the poor. Great video, please keep up the good work!
That’s right. I personally think it’s ass backwards.
If it’s a fixed percentage that doesn’t mean there are no tax brackets, the higher the income is, the higher that 13% will translate into (since of course there’s a difference between 13% of $500 and 13% of $5,000).
You are incorrect about your country however, the rich do pay about 80% of the taxes. People don’t distinguish between federal and state or city tax though. And I’ll give you an example because I looked into it (in was on the news a lot and I was curious): your former president Trump, a real estate mogul who’s assets were fixed and based in NYC mostly, paid like $700 in federal tax, true, but for the same period of time paid 40 million in taxes to the local (city and state) tax authorities. Forget who it is about (I just happened to do some research into Trump because of the media focusing on him) think of it as a business, this type of business (real estate) doesn’t use federal resources and infrastructure but uses the local resources, doesn’t it make sense he’d pay a lot more to the local administration than to the federal one?
In Russia’s case though…it’s an oligarchy, I wouldn’t expect the oligarchs in power to tax themselves to the bone lol. People forget (or they don’t know) that Putin and his inner circle are actually very, very rich people. Do you believe that these oligarchs pay 80% of the taxes like they do in America? Cause I doubt it.
Hello Ksenia! In Italy taxes are very high and no one has ever lowered them, on the contrary... For a salary of 2000 Euros, the employer has to pay double in taxes. It's terrible because today they mainly turn to immigrant workers, so they can lower their salaries or they move their production abroad! We also pay taxes for second homes. in short, over everything!!! Thanks for sharing. Have a good week.
But..., Italy has an excellent healthcare system. I was in a city hospital in an Italian city. Man, it's a space station, and the doctors were very professional and friendly. It was a very pleasant experience. The only problem for Italy is the old population, the pension system is not sustainable, that's why the taxes are high, to give them a peaceful old age. But until...
@@thephilosopher3586 Yes, you are perfectly right. Thank you very much
@@thephilosopher3586 you are right, we have amazing facilities and very professional doctors and nurses in Italy but not everywhere. It's pot luck, depending on where you live...my mother was very unlucky, the hospital her life depended on was dreadful and covid didn't help. I still feel guilty I couldn't help her
@@barbaracorrias9919 Yes, at the time of the covid even hospitals were suffering a lot. I am very sorry for your mom.
You know, there are many fairy tales in Russia that Western countries, USA, Canada and so on are just as the Heaven and Paradise compared to Russia. And a lot of people in Russia dream of getting out Russia to the West, USA band so on.
They are very brainwashed by such propaganda.
I lived in Russia, I know what I’m talking about.
you didn't mention the oligarch yacht tax...
You pay direct and indirect taxes. It is so everywhere, more or less.
Hi Xenia, I just heard about yesterday's explosion . Do you have any updates on it ? Who was that dead blogger ?
It' s all in the news and in the social media now. Ksenia hardly has any info that wouldn't be publicly available)))
@@halkak7967 Hello Halka, well, it might be in the news in Russia, but I was not able to find any good answers to my questions in USA, UK, CA, AU , NZ , papers.. If you can give me links to English newspapers about this subject, I will be very thankful
@@dovoso5685 I guess comments with direct links to other sources might get deleted on this channel. I clearly remember something about this guy Vlad Tatarsky, the pro-Kremlin military blogger, on Reuters Europe and BBC News (Europe section, too)
@@halkak7967 Thank you , I appreciate it, I will check it out
@@dovoso5685 Are you on the moon lol it's been saturated in the news!
The lying piece of filth got vaporised by a statue lol
He will not be missed by anyone 👍🏻
Health care isn't free anywhere; in fact it's wildly expensive everywhere. The only difference is how and when you pay for it.
And who pays for it. Good points!
Some pay more than others depending on your income.
So Vera gets 43 500 and pays in tax 21 500, roughly 30% in tax which is about normal everywhere in the world.
Your boss was right, he pays extra on top of what he pays you and most employees are not aware that they are costing more than they think.
If the air were in the hands of the government, it would tax every soul it takes 😂😂
Its called PAYE - pay as you earn here in UK
And NHS
You should realize that wealthy individuals use no more state services than lower earners, yet they pay much more for the same government services.
Hi Ksenia! Great to see you. Government's are always opaque about tax. E.g. VAT is far from value added and the money they gain in it astonishing! Did I hear correctly, you have a 2023 tax regulation change? Interesting (boy I fee rough today! You're helping, though). God bless! 🌿
Employees pay in general taxes, social insurances and so on on a pay as you earn scheme.
In the social welfare countries in the EU taxes and social insurances are much higher as in Russia or the United States.
Ксюша,, приезжай в Канаду.
У тебя сносно английский.
A great Video. I now know everything I need to know about taxation in Russia. Thank you!
Wow...that sucks 😞
Relax. Every country tries to extract the most taxes it can get without social protest.
Is that Lord Ganesh idol on your table?
You would be better to save and pay cash.
I love your channel and you are such a delightful person! Your English is FANTASTIC!
Tax man sucks no mater what country your in or from.
We pay 0% tax if you earn under £12,570, 20% in the UK up to 50,270 and 40% if earning £50,271 or higher. Then you also are paying 20% VAT tax on most goods too. The UK is a very, very expensive place to live.
The tories be ruining everything, and trying to privatize healthcare and making housing even more expensive; and other things :( Uk is only gonna get worse and gentrified once corporations take over.
@@qewfsdsd65445 Thats kinda sad, the rich don't pay their fair share and horde wealth and influence politics. Its why lot of russians are still poor. Reminds me of the USA, same type of "capitalist" nonsense, thats aimed for the rich.
But those are marginal rates..not effective rates.
Heck no it’s not free. Nothing is free.
Smart and Beautiful❤
Tax write off for a child is $2000 per year per child. Standard deduction in the US is $12 500 per person per year. You can file taxes jointly with a spouse and double your standard deduction to $25 000. So if only one person in the household works and they have lot of kids they may end up not paying taxes at all.
They might not pay any additional taxes, but if they are employed, they have most likely already paid various taxes from their paychecks. If only one person in the household works and they have lots of kids, income taxes might be less important than having enough money to live and support their family. That one person needs to have a very high paying job!
That works just like in Sweden, first the employer pays about 31,5% to the state för pension, health care and so on. whats left is my salary and the employer then pays the tax (about 33%) to the "kommun" (your town) if you have a high incom you also have to pay 20% state tax. Also we have to pay 25% (12% on food) "vat" tax on every thing you buy. (Alcohol, tobacco and petrol has additional taxes) with a lower normal full time (160 hour a month) salary we have to work about 3 hours to afford 1 litre cheap vodka, and 1 hour to get 5 litre petrol.
Here in Belgium to pay employee about 4000 euro salary, employer has to pay 12000. There are 25% tax instead of 31,5 tax then employee pays 13,07 security tax, then personal tax up to 50% and then we even have town tax... Besides vat other taxes like sugar tax and gas tax etc... About 70% and if you count vat and everything else it's like 80%+ tax...
Your videos are always enlightening with details about the day-to-day life of an "ordinary" person in Russia. However I should emphasize that you are by no means an ordinary person; you are an extraordinary young woman who is articulate, methodical, and thoughtful. Through the years, your fluency has grown tremendously. Kudos!
22 % for pension fund is probably realistic. In Australia we have Superannuation at about 10%. But the pension is means tested. So you might never get it unless you run out of money
Means tested...sure, on income only. Exclude the multi million dollar 3 bedroom house that's lived in and the discretionary trust with multiple beneficiaries that distributes gifts in law outside of the ATO definition of income.
@@jamesgraham446 A fibro house built in the 1960s costs over $1Mil now. The whole system is our of whack.
@@kerrynball2734 you are absolutely correct. The choice is then to either sell and rent and pay for your own life, OR, destroy the 5 later generations that are frozen out of the economy and are saddled with the debt both for themselves and for the older rent seekers. Not a question of whether the system is insane, the question is where the loss falls in order to correct it.
@@jamesgraham446 If I look at my parents generation, TV, Phone, Car, Clothes, WhiteGoods, Hand-Tools, Power-Tools. All made in Australia. If I look at my Grandfather's stuff then a percentage was made in Sheffield England. If I look now at anything in this range I buy then none of them are made locally. Not only manufacturing but also engineering design, call centres, anywhere an accountant can save some $ is pushed to cheaper labour areas. This is one the fundamental underlying problem...... Another is the development process. Developers are able to buy the land for $100k a block and sell for $500k a block. And the only difference is a bit of Bulldozer work and pouring some oil and rocks on the ground and running it over with a roller.
praying you and your family were not affected by the recent bombs in your city huge hugs
this was an interesting topic!
sound like in every country in Peru is: Retirment, Health Insurance, and 2 extra salaries every year , one for independence day and other for christmas, and has to pay schoolar to every employee every March and employee only retirment, health insurance
Do you have property tax there? If so, how much?
Also do you have an employment priviledge tax?
Property tax is 0.1% of what is known as cadastral value.
The officially disabled and pensioners are exempt from this tax.
@@gvsku spacibo, thanks
@@johnvelas70 sorry, forgot to add it's for apartments/houses whose cadastral value is up to 10 mln roubles(quite common for a pretty large apartment outside of the most expensive cities). If it's over 50 mln roubles(not what an average Russian normally has😉), the tax is 0.3
@@gvsku thanks again, I moved because we have an employment privilege tax (renamed occupational assessment tax) based on your job title they can tax you up to 100% (for self employed like me that means $365.00 just for HAVING a job).
@@johnvelas70 oh,I see. Not all states in the US have it, then. No such thing in Russia, and I'm not so sure a lot of other countries will have this kind of tax either.
Hi Xenia, good to see you. I studied Economics so I was very interesting to watch this video. You are very knowledgeable. However, there is a difference between Tax and Deduction. Income tax or Health tax, or VAT are taxes. but money taken from your salary and deposit in your Pension fund, this is not a Tax. This money is yours and you will get it when you retire. Apparently, the best way to create income is to do exactly what you are doing = having a regular job during mornings plus another self-employed job on your free time. I love your videos. you are very good.
She needs to live till 67 to get that money, another 30-40 years🙃
@@gurusalami7261 Well, she's isn't in the US. Russian females can retire at 57. Meanwhile, it is possible to borrow money against your future pension fund. 😀
Ksenia i have been thinking about you a lot lately, Darling i wish you could be away from such a position x
We have PAYE, personal allowance is £ 12, 570
If you earn below that , you pay nothing.
However everyone has a personal National Health Number, given from birth
I know mine WL blah ....
So, in Russia, if you have to call an ambulance, or have an operation, do you have to pay for these, or are they covered by the money you pay in taxes. If it is covered by the taxes, you would say it is “free at the point of delivery”?
In a European sense, it is free
Thank you. Very interesting video.
Don’t feel only Russian working class are being highly taxed. It’s the same here in New Zealand, Australia UK etc.
Do u like thee beloved Leo Tolstoy?
Interesant!
Thank you Ksenia, that was very informative. In the US, we pay pretty much all of the same taxes you pay. For employees, taxes are taken out of our paychecks for social security, medicare, and medical insurance. When you add up all of the taxes, income tax, property, sales tax, automobile registration, it comes to probably 60+ percent of our salary. I don't know exactly, but we pay approximately 40% income tax on any income we have. It could be closer to 70% of our salary goes to taxes of one form or another.
You don't get a paystub that shows all the deductions?
Kind of similar in US. Our standard deduction changes every year. Federal income tax, State income tax, Social Security. Most middle class have pensions and or 401 k, coupled with annuity. I know people who make more money after they retired. Things are changing though - social security is not guaranteed to my generation and looking at quarterly statements for retirement funds can be a roller coaster ride.
Wow , thank you for all that info...
Keep safe and well...♥️
8:27 - YES the key to getting taxes lowered is to make people aware of how much taxes they are actually paying. A very similar circumstance in the United States, except we call it "withholding". If citizens had to write a check at the end of the year to pay their taxes, I think people would wake up.
My wife is Russian and tells me when she worked there, the women did all the work while the men drank vodka and took the credit.
She is joking , I'm sure.
In the West its the exact opposite, the men do all the work and the women get all the credit.
@@arthurlenko9598 what is "the west" 🤷
Thank you, Good video! 🇨🇦
So if Vera makes 50.000 rubles each month, what is the spendable pay she has each month? Obviously, she will pay the 13%, so deduct 6.500 rubles, leaving 43.500. Is that her spendable income?
I noticed in Italy, my friends don't even think in terms of "gross" salary - they talk about their income as their take-home pay. By contrast, Americans always think in terms of gross income.
Russia is like Italy in this respect. People just don't think in terms of gross income, it's an irrelevant figure for them
In Australia ppl like to talk about gross, its sounds more impressive LOL. In reality its about 30% less.
If you ask employer how much he pays you then gross amount is correct, thats the amount he pays out of his pocket
Sounds bit complicated. Btw I installed a new battery to a car of a Russian guy today. At freetime, someone who does job at here from Russia. I forgot to ask how much is his salary and about the taxing 🤭 If you happen to come here too for a job or something, I'll do it to you! 😇
Love your videos
USA= Employees pay 6.5% and Employer 6.5 % for Social security pension out of paycheck
Unless you're self-employed or the employer, in which case you pay all 13% yourself: effectively double-taxation for the privilege of not being somebody's else's wage-slave.
@@cisium1184 Correct
So what did you hear about the bomb blast today? It was in your city, St Petersburg.
That absolute idiot got vaporised! Good news, move on 👍🏻
Oh, I don't even know if I can write comments about it here. I don't know if FSB can consider comments on this topic as discrediting of the Russian army. Let's put it like that, some person whose name i heard for the first time in my life died that day.
@@StPetersburgme don't risk anything 👍🏻
It's very similar in the United States. We pay 6% sales tax and we pay property tax and we pay taxes on fuel and taxes on our cars every year and we pay probably 50% of our earnings on taxes of one kind or another. And then if I pay some of my money to a babysitter to babysit my children, the babysitter must pay taxes on the money that was already taxed and then when she takes some of that money that I paid her and she spends it on diapers for her child. She must pay tax on that money which has already been taxed twice.
You know, there are many fairy tales in Russia that Western countries, USA, Canada and so on are just as the Heaven and Paradise compared to Russia. And a lot of people in Russia dream of getting out Russia to the West, USA band so on.
They are very brainwashed by such propaganda.
I lived in Russia, I know what I’m talking about.
No sales tax on diapers since 2019, but your point is taken.
Interesting video, Ksenia. It is similar here, regarding taxes. Also health care is not great here and is not free even for children. So much to think about on this topic! Hugs from Kansas USA where it is now spring!🐛 ❤🐕💐🌻
@@qewfsdsd65445 Absolutely, salaries are not similar. TAXES and how the employer is responsible for brokering that payment to the government is what is similar. Like I said, TAXES. Not salary.
I know in US it's not not perfect but it's better than Russia, if anyone disagrees go live there!?
It’s the same everywhere. Many countries claim they have free medical care, it’s not true at all, they pay it in taxes. We pay for example on top of actual tax, healthcare, social contribution (for unemployed people) and pension fund.
In some countries these things can be paid via private funds or companies but nothing is free, nowhere on this planet, we pay one way or another. The scandinavians and germans who have such “amazing” social and healthcare pay through their teeth in taxes. The difference is probably in the quality of healthcare or social benefits.
@@dancroitoru364 tell me a place that has actual free medical care
@@dancroitoru364 my comment is adressing the title of the video and what Ksenia said in it, that people are under the impression that healthcare is free if it’s controlled by the government and not by a private fund. It’s not an abstract concept, we’re not talking about the meaning of life but about a percentage of your wage.
And that is the same everywhere, either a citizen pays that percentage in taxes or to a private fund, healthcare is not free. In the US for example they can opt for a certain healthcare plan because it’s a private system, in Canada it’s “free” but their taxes are much higher.
@@dancroitoru364 it’s called a conversation not “spam” since I’m not a bot and it was your choice to reply to my comment. But I guess a conversation is impossible when one person writes replies that are completely off-topic. The point I was making was that healthcare isn’t free anywhere, someone pays for it in a form or another, I’m sorry if it’s “simplistic” and that I didn’t go into details for each and every country. It’s a fact.
Your reply to that fact was that life isn’t a shopping list and some passive-agressive comments that are not arguments. I am only going to assume that your English skills are not quite there and you can’t express your thoughts very well. Otherwise I can’t imagine why you’d insult a random person YOU chose to reply to and then get butthurt by simple facts.
@@qewfsdsd65445 the point is that money for healthcare don’t fall out of the sky anywhere, in any country, the citizens pay for it in a form or another. Whoever thinks they have “free healthcare” is naive to say the least.
(It doesn’t matter if it’s Russia or Germany, yes, a doctor in Germany will be paid ten times what the Russian doctor is, the taxpayer will pay more, but we are talking about the principle, not the costs).
@@minime7375 Its not free, its paid by either gov or private insurance companies. Question is which is better system for people.
How much does insurance premium cost in US per month/year? For average person
It all depends on getting value for your tax dollars. I feel here in Australia we do.
This one of your best videos. Well explained. Anyone that believes they get something free from the government is delusional. It seems that the Russian system is brilliant. Citizens are well aware of the 13 percent but the additional taxes are handled by employers. These taxes are like a hidden hand. So being uniformed, most citizens are angered by the low wages not realizing wages are driven by the additional taxes. So said anger is directed at employers not the government. There's not a lot that citizens can do about taxes but need to ask themselves if they are getting good services back compared to what the government is taking. Hopefully a country has honest elections because that is where disatisfaction is expressed.
Thanks, Mike Iowa USA.
Sounds like those living in non-third world countries all pay excessive taxes. Here in the US the tax brackets vary, but the average federal tax might be 18-20 % of gross salary. State taxes vary from zero to, lets say 5 % or so. Then there are sales taxes that average 7% on non-food items. There are varying property taxes, gas taxes, road taxes, tobacco taxes, alcohol taxes, various utility taxes, social security taxes and some more minor taxes and fees on top of those. I imagine if you add it up, the average middle- class person pays upwards of 40% or more in taxes. This is never enough, and our various levels of government constantly want more to fund every asinine program that some government employee or lobbyist can dream up. Even this is not enough so they create more virtual money on top of that. That is why we have so much inflation. I know that goods in Russia have also increased tremendously since Putin started his war. We are all getting screwed. Also, we do not have VAT taxes, but our elected officials are working to change that.
You’re very smart. Especially knowing it’s not the employer paying the tax. It’s the employee!!! Most in the US don’t understand this either.
Russia and U.S are not much different when it comes to the “Soviet” old school style mindset when it comes to getting one job and having it the rest of your life which is becoming rarer and rarer here in the United States. It’s considered “ the all American family” or “nuclear family” mindset where after the Great Depression people relied heavily on the family unit and saw the importance in taking pride in that and holding onto a job. I remember talking to my great grandfather before he died and he would tell me about the job he had for over 50 years. And that was common amongst his age group. You never see that anymore. sometimes wish society would go back to that way of life.
A non-transparent system serves a purpose... Can you request a statement of your pension account, i.e. what pension you would receive based on your current earnings for the next NN years? BTW: Tax-free tips - The "o" in "gross" is pronounced the same way as "oa" in "oat" or "boat". And, "entrepreneur" comes from the French and is pronounced in GB EN as "ontra-prenair" (our American cousins pronounce it slightly differently).