Forbes called the largest taxpayers of Russia

Former co-owner of Lukoil Leonid Fedun headed the rating of the largest Russian taxpayers on personal income tax for 2025, compiled by Forbes. The publication estimated his personal income for the year at 94.15 billion rubles, and the amount of personal income tax at 12.19 billion rubles.

In 2025, Fedun withdrew from the capital of Lukoil. In his income, Forbes included dividends on a personal stake in the oil company in the amount of 5.45 billion rubles, dividends of NFPR JSC in the amount of more than 16 billion rubles and about 72.6 billion rubles from the sale of a personal stake in LUKOIL. Taking into account the cost of acquiring shares, the personal income tax assessment amounted to 12.19 billion rubles.

The second place was taken by the co-owner of Novatek Leonid Mikhelson with an estimate of personal income tax of 7.25 billion rubles. His personal income Forbes estimated at 48.35 billion rubles, the main source was dividends.

The third was the former partner of Alexei Mordashov Vadim Shvetsov. His personal income tax is estimated at 3.09 billion rubles, and personal income is 20.62 billion rubles. The main source was dividends from Serenity Invest, which sold almost 75% of the Pacific Logistic container terminal in Vladivostok.

In total, the rating included 19 people against 24 a year earlier. Nine of them were on the list for the first time. The fourth place was taken by the owner of the food holding "Velikoluk meat processing plant" Vladimir Podvalny with an estimate of personal income tax of 3 billion rubles, the fifth - the founder of the private medical company "Family Doctor" Vladislav Timokhin with 2.65 billion rubles personal income tax.

The top 10 also included the president and co-owner of "Rushn Copper Company Limited" Vsevolod Levin and Roman Gorokhov, the owner of 45% in LLC "Managing Company of the National Horse Breeding Union" (the legal entity of the bookmaker Winline) Andrey Myslivtsev, the largest shareholder of "LUKOIL" Vagit Alekperov and the owner of the company "Stroyproektservis" Ilya Dimov.

Their personal income tax assessment ranged from 1.72 billion to 2 billion rubles.