Similar taxes are imposed by auctioning of licenses and export permits and other administrative mechanisms, which assure that all revenues from private enterprise in Russia are transferred back to the State. Russian capitalism is State owned socialism in disguise. Entrepreneurs are tolerated if they operate at a loss and pay tribute to the State for the privilege. The Russian government continues to subsidize state owned industry with gifts of trillions of rubles in annual hand-outs. Western entrepreneurs are expected to provide similar subsidies by paying the government for the privilege of losing money.
Socialism remains socialism.
The tax decrees, issued daily, rectify any conflicting expectations and verbal platitudes continue to lure unsuspecting western private capital to make their donations.