The importance of transport tax in ensuring economic security of the Russian Federation for 2006–2022

The article makes an attempt to clarify the significance of transport tax in ensuring the economic security of the Russian Federation for 2006–2022, for which the necessary statistical data were grouped (absolute values of transport tax receipts in the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation, revenues of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation and GDP, etc.). The results obtained allowed us to conclude that the role of transport tax is insignificant in terms of the volume of tax revenues, fluctuations in these volumes are quite small. At the same time, it is shown that the importance of the tax, taking into account the qualitative characteristics, is indisputable. In order to increase economic security, recommendations are proposed regarding its modernization in tax legislation.