DIAGNOSYS OF SHADOW ECONOMY IN RUSSIAN REGIONS: METHODOLOGY AND APPROBATION.

The article deals the problem of developing methodology and its approbation on the basis of Russian regions. It is devoted also to the issues of understanding the influence of social and economic environment of the shadow activity (tax evasion) of economic agents. The issues of forecasting of tax evasion are also considered in the work. Results of the research of shadow economy show powerful impact of crisis tendencies in economy on shadow economic activity. Moreover, during crises a scale of shadow economy grows considerably, therefore an importance of learning this part of economy is increasing. So far as economic crisis cause activation of all forms of shadow activities an estimating quantitative influence of socio-economic conditions on a shadow economy is of interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]