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In Russia, billionaires are “impoverished” by $3.1 billion

Russian billionaires lost more than $ 3 billion in one day.

This happened after the chief economic Advisor to the President of Russia Andrei Belousov has suggested to raise taxes for the largest metallurgical companies of the country. About it writes Bloomberg.

In a letter to Vladimir Putin, the Advisor has named the 14 companies that could pay more into the budget.

After that, according to Bloomberg, their status has decreased by 3.1 billion dollars. USA.

Provided that, in accordance with the proposal Belousova, raising taxes may help to raise up to 500 billion rubles ($7.5 billion) a year to Finance Putin’s plans.

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