Beglov said that Gazprom's move resulted in expenses for St. Petersburg

The city is spending a lot of money in connection with the move of Gazprom, while at the same time the city is receiving “virtually nothing,” Beglov said. Experts estimated the company’s contribution to the St. Petersburg budget after the move at up to 200 billion rubles.

The re-registration of Gazprom from Moscow to St. Petersburg was supposed to bring large revenues to the city budget , but it turned out to be serious expenses. The Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, announced this at a meeting of the city government, Fontanka reports.

According to him, the budget of St. Petersburg has not yet received large incomes from the activities of the energy company, and the city’s expenses are growing. At the same time, the city authorities are fulfilling their obligations towards the company, the mayor noted.

“If for everyone Gazprom is manna from heaven, then for the city it is a big expense,” Beglov said.

The governor added that budget funds were used for the construction of the interchange; in addition, specialists began the construction of highways 32 and 49 in order to provide access to the Gazprom tower.

RBC sent a request to a Gazprom representative.

The meeting of Gazprom shareholders approved the decision to change registration from Moscow to St. Petersburg in June 2021. Prior to this, the HEAD of the company’s specialized department, Karen Ohanyan, disclosed to Fontanka the figures for the group’s payments to the Moscow budget - 86 billion rubles. in 2019 and about 20 billion rubles. — in 2020. The fourfold drop in payments in 2020 was due to the covid-19 pandemic , he explained.

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According to Alexander Khodachek, President of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Gazprom’s total contribution to the St. Petersburg budget should have ranged from 70 to 200 billion rubles. Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Famil Sadygov previously said that the specific parameters of payments to St. Petersburg will be determined during the selection of a tax regime within the consolidated group of taxpayers.

Construction of the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg began in October 2012. The height of the central 87-story building of the complex is 462 m. The complex has an area of ​​400 thousand square meters. m on the shore of the Gulf of Finland there are offices, a sports complex, a planetarium, scientific, educational and medical centers, shops, cafes and restaurants. The skyscraper received permission to put into operation on October 16, 2018.

It was planned to move to the new office of the Gazprom structure back in 2019, but later the dates shifted. Lakhta Center became the official registration address of Gazprom only in August 2021. Vedomosti reported in June of this year that Gazprom began to massively transfer employees to the office premises of the tower.