Abstract: In her article Golikova describes the reasons for blocking the reproduction of assets which currently results in increased risks for human life activity and increasing number of technogenic disasters. Thus, blocking of asset reproduction creates a demographic problem and depopulation in Russia. The author offers the following solutions of this issue: changes in provisions of the tax law in order to renew the main funds using their own development means (amortization and gains), investment tax deductions, and redistribution of tax burden. Analytical survey of the provisions of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and legislative acts that have been efficient before and after Chapter 25 of the Corporation Tax Law come in force. Comparative analysis of the legal provisions and their influence on the results of financial and economic activity of Russian enterprises in different economic sectors based on the practical auditor's activity of the author over the past 20 years. The author of the article describes reasons for blocking reproduction of Russia's assets: independent elimination of own sources of finance (amortization and gains) according to the provisions of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation; existence of objective and fictitious unprofitability of Russian enterprises as a result of unrestricted acknowledgment of expenses for calculating corporation tax; and thus, limitation of the use of investment tax deduction that came into force on January 1, 2018. The author has offered the following mechanism of tax burden re-distribution: imposition of wealth tax in order to withdraw previous amortization deductions and introduction of the progressive scale of the income tax with a complete cancelation of the tax for particular kinds of physical entities.