Lease of land plots in 2014 brought 750 million rubles to the Irkutsk budget

Irkutsk administration said 750 million rubles came into the city budget from land lease, about 2 million rubles a day. Most income came from lease fees and sale of lease rights for municipal and state land, and land leased by the regional property ministry. The report also cites 1771 lease agreements and a total land area of 885.7 hectares, 3.14 percent of the city.

From the leasing of land plots, the administration of Irkutsk received a total of 750 million rubles into the city treasury, which averaged 2 million rubles per day. – The city administration press service reported.
According to the data in the information release, the funds received are distributed across three main revenue items:
- 280.4 million rubles - fees and proceeds from the sale of the right to conclude lease agreements for land in municipal ownership;
- 260.9 million rubles - fees for land in state ownership before the delimitation of state ownership of land and proceeds from the sale of the right to conclude lease agreements for the specified land plots;
- 217.4 million rubles – proceeds from the sale of the right to conclude lease agreements for land plots in which (Lessor - the Ministry of Property Relations of the Irkutsk Region).
Due to the adoption of the Laws of the Irkutsk Region No. 69-OZ “On Amendments to Certain Laws of the Irkutsk Region” and No. 162-OZ “On the Redistribution of Powers between Local Self-Government Bodies of Certain Municipal Formations of the Irkutsk Region and the Government of the Irkutsk Region,” the management of land plots whose state ownership has not been delimited, located within the territory of the city of Irkutsk, is carried out by the Government of the Irkutsk Region. At the same time, under Article 62 of the Budget Code of the Russian Federation, in the budgets of urban districts, until the delimitation of state ownership of land, revenues from the transfer for lease (sale) of land plots whose state ownership has not been delimited and which are located within the boundaries of urban districts are received in full.
According to information from the committee for the management of municipal property of the Irkutsk administration, in 2014 the land department monitored 1,771 land lease agreements. The total area of land leased amounted to 885.7 hectares, which accounted for 3.14% of the area of Irkutsk.
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk administration.