Deputies want to confiscate cars at Bombil

State Duma deputies are preparing amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses that tighten the punishment for Bombil up to the confiscation of the car, the Russian newspaper reports.

One of the main changes concerns the permission to use as a taxi car rented from individuals. The current version of the document prohibits this. "When the law was adopted, a huge part of the people who go by proxy or on cars taken on credit, a relative, for example, our Russian realities are such that there are a lot of similar situations arise, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma on constitutional legislation and state planning, head of the Russian realities, the head of the Russian realities were thrown from the market of legal taxi transportation. National Taxi Council Vyacheslav Lysakov.

The taxi law that the deputies now rule was approved in April last year and caused an extraordinary intensity of passions. The taxi drivers criticized him, and the parliamentarians themselves soon admitted that they hurried.

But the reform will not be limited to the correction of the law. “It is necessary to provide for more stringent punishment measures for Bombil,” Vyacheslav Lysakov believes. “Now the fines that they pay are many times less than those that are superimposed for various violations on taxi drivers working legally. This align must be changed, and this year we plan to prepare such amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses.” The speech, according to him, should not only be about serious fines, but also about the confiscation of cars for those violators who were not the first time.

The Moscow City Hall also believes that taxi is necessary for hard control. The city needs about 45 thousand legal taxis, but today only more than 13 thousand carriers have received official permits. “The rest are in no hurry, believing that it is possible to work freely, without answering anything. The reason for this is precisely that there is no proper control over the activities of illegal carriers,” said the deputy mayor for transport and development of road transport infrastructure Nikolai Lyamov.