A Historical and Legal Analysis of the Formation and Development of the Stages of Land Planning Fees (from 1917 to the Present)

Introduction: the article analyzes legal regulation of land planning fees during a period of more than a century, showing their dynamics at different stages. Land planning fees have existed throughout the entire period of the existence of land planning institution itself. The changing political systems only affected the specifics of their legal regulation. In modern-day Russia, an ambiguous situation with land planning fees is observed: on the one hand, they are not mentioned in either the Land Code of the Russian Federation or the Federal Law ‘On Land Planning’: on the other hand, such fees exist and are charged depending on the requester of the works, which creates a certain gap in the regulation of this institution. In anticipation of the adoption of the new law ‘On Land Planning’ it is essential to analyze the development of land planning fees in terms of positive and negative aspects. Purpose: based on an analysis of legal regulation, to determine the need for the regulation of land planning fees under current legislation. Methods: historical, logical, comparative-legal, structural-functional. Results: the study has showed that the development of land planning fees has gone through three separate stages: the first stage refers to the period before the revolution, it can be regarded as the genesis of the phenomenon under consideration, which was also taken as a basis by the Soviet government; the second stage is framed by the historical period from 1917 through 1990, it lasted until the land reform; the third stage covers the period after the land reform and up to the present moment. Conclusions: there is a direct connection between the financing of land planning fees from the relevant budget and the performance of the state's public function of managing the country's lands. The paper substantiates the hypothesis that land planning fees should be included as an independent component into land fees through legislative formalization.