Welcome to DARTS
Welcome to DARTS — a model for the Distributional Analysis of the Russian Tax and Transfer System.
DARTS puts you in the shoes of the Russian Finance Minister. You can change various tax rates and state benefits including pension levels and housing subsidies, and then track the effects on the people of Russia: who pays the taxes, who gets the benefits, and who gains and loses. DARTS does this by calculating the impact of the changes on a representative sample of the Russian population taken from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey.This is the first time anywhere in the world that a simulation model of this kind has been made available online for use by the general public.
To run the model, select design reform from the menu, follow the submenu links to change some taxes and benefits, and then press update to save the new values. A summary of the changes will appear in the information box on the right.
The view results link on the menu produces a set of charts and tables describing the impact of your changes by region, income decile, age group and household type. More detailed results may be downloaded for further analysis.
The help link provides more information on the model and the definitions of terms.