The lawyer warned about fines for selling vegetables from the suburban area

Selling vegetables from your own plot can sometimes result in a fine for a summer resident. Senior lawyer and founder of the law office Ksenia Zaitseva warned about this on Monday, July 20.

She clarified that such transactions are regulated by the Code of Administrative Offenses, the Tax Code and the federal law "On Personal Subsidiary Farming." A one-time sale of the surplus will not entail liability, but you will have to pay tax from the proceeds, and you should be more attentive to regular transactions.

"If you sell vegetables, fruits and berries systematically, if you have assistants and you make a profit from it, then this is considered illegal entrepreneurship, and there will be a fine for it," Zaitseva said in an interview with Paragraph.

She clarified that there is no fixed amount of fine. To avoid it, you should apply for self-employment, which allows you to pay taxes quickly. In addition, you can acquire the status of an individual entrepreneur and then accept payment.

The lawyer also explained that in order to legally sell products, the owner of the suburban area must provide the regulatory authorities with an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and a certificate of ownership of the territory.

"If you sell your own, sometimes you may need documents stating that the products have passed sanitary standards. <...> Compliance with all standards will protect you as much as possible from sudden problems," the expert concluded.

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The leader of the Fair Russia party, Sergei Mironov, said on July 16 that summer residents should be allowed to sell their surplus agricultural products in crowded places, including areas near large stores and hypermarkets, according to the website. kp.ru .

In turn, Alexander Khaminsky, a lawyer and head of the Law Enforcement Center in Moscow and the Moscow Region, explained in an interview with RT on June 29 that according to the law, citizens have the right to sell crops grown in their garden, as well as livestock products produced in their personal subsidiary farm, including milk, cottage cheese and cheese of their own manufacture.

State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev clarified that residents of Russia can sell their crops without paying taxes, NSN reports. A number of conditions must be met. For example, vegetables and fruits should be grown without the involvement of hired workers.