Role of the regional taxes, generated in the mining sector, in the economy of the Russian resource regions

The balanced distribution of the natural capital exploitation income makes one of the key problems of the contemporary environmental economics. Efforts made by many researchers are aimed at finding the solutions to the issues of the equitable distribution of the natural rent, socio-economic development of the mining areas and the mineral resources processing. As a rule, most of the resource regions do not show the accelerated economic growth, acquiring in return environmental problems, regional budget imbalance and increase in social tension. The article considers tax revenues into the local budgets, shows the structure of different types of taxes, estimates the dynamics of payments and the degree of influence of extractive industries on the regional incomes according to the type of the raw material extracted. On the example of the regional taxes structure, such as income and property taxes, it is shown that the official statistics allows to see the general trends in collection and distribution of the tax revenues only, while the intercompany distribution of the financial flows and reporting made by the big extractive companies do not allow to estimate the real contribution of mining enterprises into the regional budgets. In order to strengthen the budgetary system of the resource regions, it is necessary to increase transparency of contracts between the companies and the territories, which makes the key element that promotes trust between society and business.