Tax counted 385 billionaires in Russia

Following the declarative of 2010, the Federal Tax Service has counted 385 Russian citizens who have incomes above the 1 billion rubles., Said Deputy Minister Svetlana Andryushchenko. Representatives of the fiscal service point reduction in the number of declarants who have a high income level: in comparison with 2009, Russia has 15% less billionaires and 40% of people with an income of 10.1 million rubles. Partly this may be due to the fact that the duty has been abolished to declare income received from sale of property which the taxpayer owned more than three years, experts said. This year, the declarative company will not complete at the end of April, as it was before, and May 3, said Svetlana Andryushchenko. Previously, the magazine «Forbes» counted in Russia 101 dollar billionaires, 78 of whom live in Moscow. According to the publication, the richest people in our country are: Vladimir Lisin ($ 24.5 billion) and Mikhail Prokhorov ($ 13.4 billion) and Mikhail Fridman ($ 12.7 billion).