Public financial resources: The role of territories (The case of Russia)

The article aims to identify the role of individual territories in the formation of gross and net tax revenues to the federal budget. The peculiarity of the approach will allow, to a certain extent, to assess the nature of spatial (horizontal) redistribution of the federal part of tax transfers administered by the Federal Tax Service. During 2006-2020, the values of net revenues to the federal budget turned out to be negative only in the North Caucasian and Far Eastern districts. In the context of the proposed approach, they are recipients of the federal budget; some of the federal support is, under certain assumptions, financed by tax revenues from other territories. As a rule, 40-50% of all subjects of the Russian Federation have negative net revenues. However, in most cases their values are insignificant, sometimes changing sign. The number of recipients of the federal budget, indicating a change in government priorities in the distribution of tax resources along the budget vertical, consistently increased until the crisis of 2008-2009 and decreased after it (with the exception of 2018-2020).