Problems of determining the guilt of legal entities in administrative law

The problem of determining the guilt of a legal entity for an administrative offense is currently very relevant in legal science. This problem is the central focus of this work. However, in order to fully disclose the problem of determining the guilt of legal entities, the article highlights the problems that are associated with the concept of a legal entity and its essence. The presented paper lists the approaches to determining the essence of a legal entity. The concept of a legal entity in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation is given. The article analyzes the concept of a legal entity under civil law with the concept of an organization, which is defined in the science of sociology. This article gives the concept of a collective subject. And also, the correlation of the concept of a collective subject and the concept of a legal entity is considered. Further, the article identifies three main approaches to determining the guilt of legal entities in administrative law: subjective, objective and complex, and also expresses the opinion of the authors of the article about the approaches under consideration. The paper presents the author’s conclusions and possible solutions to problems related to the concept of a legal entity and the definition of the legal entity’s guilt in administrative law for administrative offenses.