The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) has developed a draft law to regulate non-tax payments that legal entities and individual entrepreneurs (IEs) are obligated to pay into budgets at various levels. These include duties, fees, and other charges outside the scope of tax legislation. The CCI also proposes conducting a comprehensive inventory of payments collected at the federal level, assessing the overall burden on businesses, and creating a federal registry of such charges. The collection of payments not included in the registry should not be permitted.

The draft law envisages limiting the maximum amount of mandatory payments. Specifically, provisions on maximum amounts and the procedure for their determination should be contained in the documents governing such charges. These may include federal laws and government decrees, regional laws and regulatory acts, as well as municipal regulations. The document also foresees the creation of regional and municipal non-tax payment registries in addition to the federal one. Overall, the project aims to establish unified rules for setting, amending, and collecting non-tax fees.

“The fragmentation of information scattered across numerous departmental websites and regulatory acts requires significant time and resources for search and analysis, which is especially challenging for small and medium-sized businesses that lack their own legal departments. Moreover, the absence of clear rules and controls can create favorable conditions for abuse by regulatory authorities,” comments Andrey Sheptiy, Senior Lawyer of the Tax Tax Advisory and Litigation Practice at VERBA LEGAL. “Among the challenges faced by businesses are the lack of a unified procedure for contesting quasi-tax payments and duplication of fees essentially intended for the same or comparable purposes.”

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