“ In internal discussions, Russian officials have considered raising the personal income tax for earnings over 1 million rubles ($10,860) a year to 15% from 13%, and increasing the rate for earnings above 5 million rubles a year to 20% from 15%, according to a report by the independent Russian investigative outlet Important Stories, which cited unnamed government officials and was confirmed by Bloomberg News.

The change is likely to hit particularly hard in Moscow, whose residents earn some of the country’s highest salaries. The average Russian salary last year was about 884,500 rubles, according to the state statistics agency, Rosstat. In Moscow, it was nearly double, or about 1,636,800 rubles.”

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