Russia plans tax hike to finance war on Ukraine

DPA International Yahoo News ^ | 9/24/2025 | Staff

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Russia plans to raise value-added tax (VAT) to help finance its war on Ukraine...."

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[House Atreides]

Marcus is of the OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY tribe in all things.

[Kazan]

Significant Russian Advance l Russia Entered Novoselivka And Stepnohirsk

Russian Forces Completely Outflank Ukrainian Defenses Giving Major Advantage

[BeauBo]

Lenin would approve.

Putin is delivering both.

[marcusmaximus]

Putin’s VAT tax hike is in addition to his Income Tax hikes to be approved next week.

[kiryandil]

Come on, man! Put your moniker in bold black letters in the quarter's tabulation. Donate and show your moniker in the lists, with pride.

marcus is here to troll and disrupt. It doesn't appear that he'll donate - because he's here TO TEAR DOWN Free Republic, not to help it.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Just loved the Lenin quote. It is so applicable to the subject, as this thread begins with the proposal by Russia to raise their VAT to 22 percent.

Since topics are often not framed with enough information to flesh out a picture, here is the picture of the European Union "member states" VAT percentages, and others in Europe though not in the EU. Some are below the Russian proposal and about half are -- thinking of Lenin's "crushing the bourgeoisie" with taxes -- higher.

So here, for discussion about VAT rates"

VAT rates in the European Union, arranged lowest to highest --

---- LOWER THAN 22 percent

Switzerland (CH) -- 8.1
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Luxembourg (LU) -- 17
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Georgia (GE) -- 18
Malta (MT) -- 18
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Cyprus (CY) -- 19
Germany (DE) -- 19
Romania (RO) -- 19
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Austria (AT) -- 20
Bulgaria (BG) -- 20
France (FR) -- 20
Moldova (MD) -- 20
Turkey (TR) -- 20
Ukraine -- 20
United Kingdom (GB) -- 20
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Belgium (BE) -- 21
Czech Republic (CZ) -- 21
Latvia (LV) -- 21
Lithuania (LT) -- 21
Netherlands (NL) -- 21
Spain (ES) -- 21
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22 percent

Estonia (EE) -- 22
Italy (IT) -- 22
Slovenia (SI) -- 22
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HIGHER THAN 22 percent

Ireland (IE) -- 23
Poland (PL) -- 23
Portugal (PT) -- 23
Slovakia (SK) -- 23
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Greece (GR) -- 24
Iceland (IS) -- 24
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Croatia (HR) -- 25
Denmark (DK) -- 25
Norway (NO) -- 25
Sweden (SE) -- 25
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Finland (FI) -- 25.5
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Hungary (HU) -- 27

[kiryandil]

Putin’s VAT tax hike is in addition to his Income Tax hikes to be approved next week.

By contributing at least $30/month (or $360/year) to Free Republic you can be a member of the Free Republic Dollar-A-Day club."You can contribute any combination of monthly and/or one-time contributions to reach this goal."

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[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Placing the numbers for VAT across Europe and Russia, can also be additionally framed with the average state and municipal sales taxes in the United States --- 7.5 percent.

So we are below the lowest all across Europe.

[McCarthysGhost]

I have to ask. Is Russia the new North Korea? Are they the new attack dog for China against America and The West? What Russia is doing seems so self-destructive and for what? They could’ve had both victory in the war in Ukraine and peace and many more good things. What is their real motivation here?

[kiryandil]

Dear FRiends, Our FReepathon is our next concern. We still need to raise approximately $17k before the end of the month to meet our goal! And I think we're gonna need a little prayer here. Thank you very much and God bless you.

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[silverleaf]

Thanks

[kiryandil]

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[mac_truck]

Does the number $37.5 Trillion ring a bell, dummy?

[marcusmaximus]

Putin didn’t think things through and never had a plan b.

[McCarthysGhost]

The Plan B would’ve been to take the peace deal where they get gobs of Ukrainian land, favorable terms, and get a bunch of lucrative business deals.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "The Plan B would've been to take the peace deal where they get gobs of Ukrainian land, favorable terms, and get a bunch of lucrative business deals."

Would love a link or two if you could validate your assertion. Best I can tell, after using two search sites, there was not a "Plan B" offered as you've detailed it.

[EnderWiggin1970]

If Russia were “about to collapse” as the globalists keep telling us it would be more than a 2% increase. Will be fun continuing to watch the economic numbers in Europe vis-a-vis Russia. We’ll see who collapses first. ;-)