Siluanov announced the effectiveness of the plan to whitewash the economy

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the government’s plan to whitewash the Russian economy is yielding results. His statements about successes in the relevant work are quoted by TASS.

“Over the three months of operation of the system for confirming the expectation of goods, the so-called SPOT, we see that about 34 billion rubles in revenues from imports have been attracted, although more, we believe that this figure is much higher, since we see these revenues from other tax revenues,” the minister said at a hearing in the Federation Council on the draft budget.

The Ministry of Finance is analyzing how the economy adapts to tax changes, concentrating on increasing the efficiency of tax administration and whitewashing the economy, Siluanov noted in May. He added that while consolidating the budget, “it is impossible to turn a blind eye to the gray sector in the economy.”

Before this, in particular, it became known about the ministry’s plans to leave preferential VAT only for certified children’s products, increasing the tax for others from 10 to 22 percent. On October 1, the corresponding legislative changes have already come into force.

In December 2025, speaking about the plan for whitewashing the national economy prepared by the Cabinet of Ministers, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak specified that the authorities were going to take steps to stimulate the transition to non-cash forms of payment, which would allow receiving additional revenues to budgets of all levels in the amount of up to a trillion rubles per year.