The State Duma has approved a bill to reduce fines for taxis without OSGOP
At the plenary session on July 10, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill to reduce fines for taxis operating without a carrier's compulsory civil liability insurance (OSGOP). The bill is posted in the database of the lower house of Parliament.
The document proposes to establish the following fines for carriers in passenger taxis: 1-5 thousand rubles for citizens, 20-25 thousand rubles for individual entrepreneurs and 30-40 thousand rubles for legal entities.
Currently, according to Article 11.31 of the Administrative Code, the carriage of passengers without an OSGOP agreement entails an administrative fine for officials in the amount of 40-50 thousand rubles and from 500 thousand to 1 million rubles for legal entities.
According to the authors of the bill, the current fines are disproportionate to the consequences of an administrative offense and were originally designed primarily for large-scale air and rail transportation.
So, for air carriers, the average annual revenue is about 612.2 billion rubles, and for railway carriers — about 106.7 billion rubles (according to IFRS), and for them such high fines may be proportionate. For passenger taxi carriers, whose turnover can reach up to 5.5 billion rubles, such fines seem excessively high, the explanatory note says.
"In a passenger taxi, as in any other type of transport, the risks of missing the deadlines for the renewal of the OSGOP contract are not excluded, however, fines set at 500,000 to 1 million rubles are palpable even for a "large" taxi company and put the passenger taxi business on the verge of bankruptcy," the authors of the bill noted.
Earlier, on May 22, it was reported that taxi drivers without OSGOP insurance are planning to be detected using the cameras of the "Web" system. This follows from the draft government decree prepared by the Ministry of Transport. If approved, it should enter into force on September 1, 2025.
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