Putin files income tax returns

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and top officials of the Kremlin administration filed their income tax returns for 2018, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

“Everybody made filings. [The returns] will be published within the timeframe set forth by the law,” Peskov said.

According to the law, high-ranking government officials must file returns on their incomes and incomes of their spouses and underage children annually by April 1. Such data are published after their checking, approximately in a fortnight after the deadline for submission of returns.

The Russian President declared the income of 18.7 mln rubles ($285 thousand) for 2017 a year ago.