Forbes named the largest taxpayers of Russia on personal income tax for 2025
Russian magazine Forbes presented a rating of 19 largest taxpayers of Russia on personal income tax for 2025 — the list includes entrepreneurs with a tax of more than 1 billion rubles. The first place was taken by the former co-owner of LUKOIL Leonid Fedun with personal income tax of 12.19 billion rubles and personal income of 94.15 billion rubles.
Russian magazine Forbes presented a rating of 19 largest taxpayers of Russia on personal income tax for 2025 — the list includes entrepreneurs with a tax of more than 1 billion rubles. The first place was taken by the former co-owner of LUKOIL Leonid Fedun with personal income tax of 12.19 billion rubles and personal income of 94.15 billion rubles. The main source of income was the sale of a personal stake in LUKOIL (about 72.6 billion rubles), as well as dividends.
The second place was taken by the head of NOVATEK Leonid Mikhelson (NDFL - 7.25 billion rubles, income - 48.35 billion rubles), the third - Vadim Shvetsov (3.09 billion rubles and 20.62 billion rubles, respectively). The top 5 also included Vladimir Podvalny (3 billion rubles) and Vladislav Timokhin (2.65 billion rubles). In the top ten were Vsevolod Levin, Roman Gorokhov, Andrei Myslivtsev, Vagit Alekperov and Ilya Dimov.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, since the beginning of 2026, the total wealth of the richest Russians has increased by almost $22 billion. Most of all added Andrey Melnichenko (+$5.63 billion, to $24.6 billion), Mikhelson (+$4.15 billion, to $ 27.8 billion) and Alexei Mordashov (+$3.66 billion, to $29.9 billion). Mikhail Prokhorov ($4.6 billion, to $12 billion) and Pavel Durov ($2.2 billion, to $12.2 billion) lost part of their fortune.
