Named the most expensive for the maintenance of the civil service
The Federal tax service (FTS) of Russia takes the first place by the number of employees and expenditures to ensure their activities among the Russian authorities. This is evidenced by statistics of the Ministry of Finance, published in the public domain. Data drew the attention of RBC.
By the end of 2017, at the Federal tax service and its territorial inspections worked for almost 23 percent of the total number of Federal employees — almost 146 thousand people. The actual costs of the service amounted to 134,1 billion.
In second place was the system of Federal arbitration courts, which occupied only 15 thousand specialists. The cost of maintenance amounted to 111.5 billion. Third place goes to the Prosecutor General’s office, which employs more than 40 thousand people (more than 55 billion).
The cheapest for the state was with the Ministry with a staff of 50 people, the costs of which amounted to 50 million rubles, the youth with the expenses of 80 million rubles in the staff of 90 professionals and the Federal tourism Agency (staff of 60 people, the cost just over 130 million).
The statistics do not include data of the Ministry of defense, Ministry of interior, Regardie, law enforcement and security.
Only in 2017, the authorities referred to in the report of the Ministry of Finance received a budget 729,8 billion rubles, which is about four billion more than the year before. About 60 percent of this amount is spent on salaries. Only in Russia at the end of the year, there were 1,273 million Federal, regional and municipal officials. For the first time since 2014 the number had risen, but the increase was insignificant — only 0,4% (5.2 thousand).
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