Method of calculation of rental size for use of forest sites in federal property

The purpose of this article is to clarify the methodological approach to calculating the rent for the use of forest plots laid down in Russian forest legislation.The method used to achieve the goal of the study is to study in detail the provisions of the legislative acts regulating the procedure for calculating the amount of rent for the use of federally owned forest parcels and the decisions of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation based on the results of disputes between forest users and regulators organs.The Forest Code of the Russian Federation establishes the procedure for calculating the minimum rent for the use of forest areas on the basis of the amount of forest resources withdrawn from the leased forest area, or on the basis of the area of the leased forest area [1]. The procedure for calculating the amount of rent for the use of forest plots under lease agreements concluded as a result of the auction provides for the indexation of rates of payment for the use of forest plots by means of upward coefficients established by law for each calendar year.Lease agreements for forest parcels should be concluded based on the results of auction bidding on the basis of model lease agreements, in which the tenant’s obligation is to pay rent in amounts that take into account coefficients to payment rates established by the Government of the Russian Federation of May 22, 2007 No 310 [2].The conclusions are that the main difficulty in calculating the rent for the use of forest plots was to apply correction factors to the rates established in the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of May 22, 2007 No 310. The annual adjustment of the rates of payments for the use of forest resources with the help of multiplying factors should change only the regulated part of the rent, which is calculated on the basis of the volume or area of forest resources used and the rates with coefficients ennymi for a specific year. That part of the rent, which was established during the auction, remains constant throughout the term of the lease agreement for the forest area.