Who pays the most taxes into the Voronezh Region budget

The budget of Voronezh Region has grown steadily over the last five years. Revenues of the region«s main financial plan increased from 144 billion rubles (about $1.6 billion at current rates) in 2020 to 210.2 billion rubles (about $2.3 billion) in 2025. And although the regional budget is consistently planned with a deficit, this deficit is technical, and the authorities always find a way to cover it. For example, the regional budget for 2026 was adopted with a deficit of 9.8 billion rubles (about $109 million) against expenditures of 226.7 billion rubles and revenues of 216.9 billion rubles (about $2.4 billion).

The main source of budget revenue is taxes, particularly the profit tax, which provides about a quarter of budget revenues. We have compiled a top-50 list of the region«s main donors to the treasury.

Where budget money comes from

Regional budget revenues are formed from various sources. The main ones are:

• Taxes: profit tax, personal income tax, excise duties, property tax, transport tax, etc.;

• Grants: subsidies and subventions from the federal budget;

• Income from property: rent and sale of state property.

In some regions, a decent portion of budget revenue comes from the mineral extraction tax (for example, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tyumen Region).

Profit tax is one of the main sources of revenue for the budget of Voronezh Region. How the share of this revenue in the region«s budget structure has changed over five years is shown in our infographic.

According to preliminary results for 2025, with total revenue of 210.2 billion rubles (about $2.3 billion), profit tax has so far been collected at 45.1 billion rubles (about $501 million), or 21.5%. Yes, not all reports have been submitted and calculated yet, but the trend is evident: profit tax is providing less and less. Hundredths of a percent in this case translate to tens of millions of rubles.

Personal income tax (PIT) is the second-largest revenue item for the regional budget (the tax on personal income, those same 13% of salary that each of us pays). To make it clear what we«re talking about, here are the specific figures. In 2020, PIT brought 30.6 billion rubles (about $340 million) to the Voronezh Region budget. In 2021 — 32.3 billion rubles (about $359 million), in 2022 — 37.5 billion (about $417 million), in 2023 — 43.4 billion (about $482 million), in 2024 — almost 54 billion (about $600 million), in 2025 — also around 54 billion rubles (about $600 million) so far.

As we can see, PIT provides a steadily growing amount of funds to the budget. It grows along with our salaries. At the same time, we note that the lion«s share of PIT includes contributions from public sector employees, whose salaries are paid from the same budget. It»s a cycle of money in nature. And profit tax is the business contribution to the region«s development, showing which companies earn here not just for themselves, stuffing their own bottomless pockets with dividends.

Who are our donors?

Year after year, some companies operating in the region bring serious money into the budget. The 50 largest payers of profit tax over five years (from 2020 to 2024) contributed 47,482,107,000 rubles (about $528 million) to the budget, of which almost 40.1 billion rubles (about $446 million) remained specifically in the regional budget (profit tax does not entirely stay in the region; part is paid to the federal budget). To understand the scale: the «SPARK-Interfax» service lists over 500 companies operating in Voronezh Region with revenue over a billion, and 100 of them do not pay profit tax at all.

The top 50 taxpayers accounted for almost 12% of the total profit tax collected in the region in 2024—their contribution to the regional budget amounted to 11.9 billion rubles (about $132 million). Meanwhile, in 2020, the same top 50 paid 4.2 billion rubles (about $47 million), or 7% of the total profit tax, into the Voronezh Region budget.

Methodology. Open data publishes companies« accounting reports, including line 4124, which is called »Profit Tax«. VORONEZH1.RU calculated it for the largest companies over five years—from 2020 to 2024. This is done to exclude inevitable annual tax adjustments and refunds. During this period, the basic profit tax rate was 20%, distributed as follows: 17% went to the regional budget, 3% to the federal budget (from 2025 the rate was increased to 25%, with the federation now getting 8%). For data purity and correct comparison of companies, revenue specifically from profit taxes was counted. In 2022, another nuance appeared: some companies already under international sanctions or at risk of them were allowed not to publish reports.

Who pays the most?

In first place by volume of profit tax paid in Voronezh Region is the company LLC T-D L-PAK—engaged in packaging production: corrugated cardboard, paper, egg boxes, and recycles waste paper. Over five years, they paid almost 4.2 billion rubles (about $47 million) in profit tax, while dividends—0.

In second place is LLC «SAF-NEVA». These fast-acting yeasts are in every homemaker«s kitchen. Over five years, they paid 2.6 billion rubles (about $29 million) in profit tax and roughly the same amount in dividends. They didn»t shortchange themselves, nor did they deprive the region.

In third place is the Olkhovat Sugar Plant. It contributed 2.3 billion rubles (about $26 million) in profit tax to the budget over 5 years and paid out almost 5 billion rubles (about $56 million) in dividends.

Interesting figures for PJSC «TNS-Energo»: with revenue of 166 billion rubles (about $1.8 billion) over 5 years, profit tax for the same period was paid at 1.8 billion rubles (about $20 million), while dividends were 2.1 billion rubles (about $23 million).

Or take JSC «Liskimontazhkonstruktsiya» in 9th place on our list: revenue over five years—just under 46 billion rubles (about $511 million), profit tax—less than 1.5 billion rubles (about $17 million), but dividends—almost 9 billion rubles (about $100 million).

Over five years, JSC «Molvest» also paid almost twice as much in dividends as in profit tax: with revenue of 142 billion rubles (about $1.6 billion), profit tax amounted to only 515 million rubles (about $5.7 million), while dividends for the same period were paid at over 1.2 billion rubles (about $13 million).

What«s in the plans?

Along with the budget for the coming year, planning documents for the two subsequent years are adopted. And the plans of the Voronezh authorities are quite optimistic. In 2026, profit tax is planned to bring 47.9 billion rubles (about $532 million) to the budget. Plans for 2027 are even bolder—50.3 billion rubles (about $559 million). In 2028, according to the plan, this will be almost 53 billion rubles (about $589 million). Meanwhile, the trend is just the opposite: the share of profit tax in the regional budget«s revenue structure is currently decreasing.