Lapina M.A., Karpukhin D.V. Penalties for administrative offences in the sphere of economics and finance: analysis of legislation and ways of improvement

Abstract: The research focuses on the problems of application of administrative penalties and on the wide range of potential subjects of fines. There are no strict formal-legal criteria which could substantiate the reduction of a fine or its replacement with another, less tough, administrative sanction; subjects of administrative liability (legal entities and entrepreneurs) can be equally subjected to the punishment in the form of a fine regardless of their material condition. These problems lead to the shift of the purpose of a fine from the preventive to the pronouncedly punitive one, thus objectively hampering the development of entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation. This article is devoted to the analysis of the ways of these problems solving. The methodology of the research is based on the recent achievements of epistemology. The authors apply the general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, analysis, synthesis, deduction, observation, modeling), the traditional legal methods (formal-logical) and the methods of special sociological research (the statistical methods, expert assessments, etc.). The authors conclude that recently in order to provide legality in the sphere of finance it is necessary to improve forms and methods of administrative-legal regulation of financial activities of the state. The main contribution of the authors is the conclusion about the necessity to develop administrative-legal regulation of financial safety. The novelty of the research lies in the suggestion about the development of forms and methods of government regulation in the sphere of finance and the provision of legal and organizational guarantees of legality in the financial sphere. 

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