Which wells and wells need to be licensed and taxed in 2021.

The problem of clean fresh water is becoming more and more urgent all over the world and our country is no exception. It is especially important to have their own well or pump for owners of private houses in settlements where there is no running water.

But more recently, some innovations have appeared that regulate the drilling of wells and digging wells in private farmsteads, and to be precise, in 2019 this not entirely pleasant news appeared in the media information.

Let's figure out in which cases the owners of private houses and summer cottages are required to issue a license for a well or a column with the subsequent payment of tax on consumed water.

Since I am the owner of a summer residence and, accordingly, a small vegetable garden, I was very much interested in this innovation. I could not understand in any way why I had to pay water tax if I personally paid for the drilling of a well and pay for the electricity that is consumed when pumping water out of the ground?

Having rummaged through the depths of the world wide web, I found out that groundwater is the property of the state and in order to use it, you need to get a license and pay tax. To anyone interested, this law can be found in the Federal Law "On Subsoil".

But I did not stop there and, to my great joy, found out that a license is required only for the case when a column or a well belongs to a partnership and supplies water to consumers through engineering networks. Thus, columns and wells that are in your personal use usually do not require licensing.

If your water supply is carried out from a public water pump, then the chairman of the partnership should collect a certain package of documents in order to obtain a license.

You can issue it at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment or through the MFC. The amount that will have to be paid does not exceed 8,000 rubles and is divided among all members of the partnership who use the water. The nice thing is that the license is issued for 25 years.

How is water tax calculated?

In addition to the license, everyone who receives water for their plots must pay tax. And here the difficulties begin.

A water consumption meter is installed on the well, according to which its consumption will be paid.

But how do you know exactly how much water each individual member of the partnership used? How can a summer resident, who rarely comes to his property, prove that he did not use water?

In addition to these questions, there are a number of others, no less important:

- How exactly will the tax be calculated?

- How will the collection of funds from all summer residents to pay for it take place?

- What should the chairman of the partnership for which the license for the well have been issued if the other owners of summer cottages do not want to participate in paying for it?

But worst of all, in case of not issuing a license, a fine follows. And again the question: Who will pay for the violation?

But besides the wells, there are also wells. When is it necessary to issue a license to their owners?

Don't worry if you have a well no deeper than 5 meters; water consumption does not exceed 100 cubic meters per day; water is used only for their own needs. Subject to these rules, neither a license nor a water tax is required.

With the beginning of the summer season, checks are quite possible. Therefore, if you have a well or a well, wait for "guests" who will check your water production sources in every possible way.

Study the laws to be able to protect yourself! Remember that ignorance of the laws does not exempt from liability and, accordingly, from paying taxes.

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