Huge territory, with the purpose for agriculture in Russia is often not used. As a result, many rural residents without a job, had to withdraw from the field and go to town. According to the Chairman of the Duma Committee for agrarian issues, Vladimir Kashin, to solve this problem will allow a tenfold increase of the tax to landowners that do not use their ownership of the land for the purpose.

"Many have picked up the earth, and it is not the case. And people who want to work are forced to leave the village because there is no land, no job. And, to finally break the deadlock over the sensitive issue with the non-use of agricultural land, I have an idea. I think we need to increase 10 times the land tax on unused land. Then neglectful owners will be forced to cede land to those who are willing and ready to work on it," said the "parliamentary newspaper", the legislator.

Kashin noted that the changes to be made to the Tax code. Now the initiative is in the formative stage, but in this session he intends to introduce a bill to the state Duma.

With the idea of multiple tax increase for unscrupulous landowners and agree to the Federation Council. First Deputy Chairman of the house Committee on agrarian and food policy and nature management Sergey Lisovsky, supporting this initiative, referred to foreign experience.

"This is a worldwide practice — for example, in Europe for non-use of agricultural land awarded huge fines. Therefore, it is cultivated every suitable piece of land. That is fine," said the "parliamentary newspaper" Senator. He noted that now in Russia this problem is not as acute as several years ago, but, nevertheless, still exists and is in urgent need of solution.

Indeed, according to the Prosecutor's checks in Russia is annually reduced area of agricultural land. As of 2017, were not utilized more than 56 million hectares, accounting for about 14.5 percent of the total agricultural land. Moreover, such unused areas are located in most regions. Annually the Prosecutor's office captures tens of thousands of violations of the law in relation to land use. The greatest number of violations, the Supervisory authority records in the officials responsible for the transfer of land ownership or lease.

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