“In Russia, there are signs of the development of the sector of shadow payments - in cash or direct transfers from the buyer to the seller (in the interests of avoiding automated tax accounting),” he wrote in the article “Thirteen Theses on the Economy.”

According to RIA Novosti, Belousov suggested that the number of shadow payments could increase due to increased tax and financial control.

Earlier, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that inflation in Russia by the end of 2022 will be about 12%.