In the Nizhny Novgorod region counted 285 illegal gas stations

In the Nizhny Novgorod region there are about 285 illegal container filling stations. Due to their work, the regional budget may annually lose 1.3 billion rubles of VAT and 1.6 billion rubles of income tax. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Association “Reliable Partner” Dmitry Gusev, writes the publication Energy Today.

According to him, now there are 765 legal gas stations in the region, and the number of illegal facilities, the so-called “gasbots”, is about 285 – thus they account for about 37% of the number of legal gas stations.

As Gusev noted, the owners of such points avoid taxes. The origin and quality of the fuel sold remain unknown. Additional budget losses are associated with the fact that employees of illegal gas stations can work informally - as a result, personal income tax and insurance contributions to the Social Fund are not received.

The budget deficit of the Nizhny Novgorod region in 2026 is slightly less than 60 billion rubles. However, as we can see, 5% of this deficit can be closed by simply adjusting the legislation, and maybe more. The destruction of the black fuel market will lead to an increase in revenues of legal white companies - owners of gas stations, and accordingly - to an increase in tax deductions, including from legal workers, the expert explained.

He also drew attention to the fact that legislative changes that should ban the activities of container filling stations have not been adopted for more than a year. Gusev urged the leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Ministry of Finance of Russia to pay attention to the problem.