Problems of Estimating the Dynamics of the Shadow Economy in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The article reflects the relevance and importance of studying the issues of the scale and types of shadow economic activity in the structure of the national economic system, and also examines the problematic issues of assessing the dynamics of the shadow economy in the Russian Federation. Within the framework of the proposed study, problem areas are outlined in the calculations of the level of the non-observed economy of the Russian Federation, in addition, the study substantiates that available indicator recorded by the Federal State Statistics Service in all regions should be used to assess the shadow economy and differentiate the organizational and legal mechanisms to counter 103 АНАЛИЗ И ДИАГНОСТИКА its development. Will allow ensuring the comparability of calculations between different subjects and will give some universality to the methods of structuring the forms of the shadow economy and the analysis of the dynamics of its scale. Within the framework of the proposed study, the need for a more detailed study of the dynamics of employment in the shadow sector of the economy is determined, on the basis of the study of which it is only possible to judge the scale of production in the shadow sector of the economy.