IMPROVEMENT OF THE METHODS OF NORMATIVE MONETARY VALUATION OF THE FOREST LAND PLOTS

Abstract

The paper analyzes updates to the “Methodology of normative monetary valuation of land plots” in terms of the normative monetary valuation of forestry lands. It is established that the new approaches to the normative monetary valuation of forestry land plots introduced by the law of Ukraine are based on differentiation of the standard of the capitalized rental income per unit of the area by using the coefficients considering the category of forests and the actual forest cover of the area. Such algorithm is applied both within and outside settlements. The previous approach used the coefficients which considered the type of forest vegetation conditions (values of those coefficients were differentiated for the categories of forests in which felling of the main use was allowed or prohibited, exploitation forests, as well as by the categories of forest tariff in Polissia, Forest Steppe, Steppe, Mountain Crimea, and the Ukrainian Carpathians), effect from using the technical, medicinal, other forest products and useful properties of forests, as well as compliance of the actual forest cover of the area with the optimum one. Within settlements, the normative monetary land valuation of that category was carried out according to the general algorithm of valuating the lands of settlements.

The performed analysis indicates that, according to the new methodology, the valuation values have significantly decreased. The average value of the normative monetary valuation of the forests of nature conservation, scientific, historical and cultural significance; recreation and health forests and protective forests is only 13 % of the average value according to the previous procedure, and for exploitation forests – 23 %. Such noticeable difference has happened because the new methodology does not consider differentiation based on the types of forest vegetation conditions, and fails to consider the distance of timber removal from the center of forest compartment to the nearest lower depot of the logger or timber loading by the railway (forest tariff category).

To differentiate the valuation indicators depending of the type of the forest vegetation conditions, it is proposed to use the coefficients of productivity of forest land and shrubs based on the types of forest vegetation conditions (degree of soil moisture (hygrotopes), soil fertility group (trophotopes)), to apply the coefficients which consider location of the community within the zone being influenced by large cities, the resort and recreational significance of settlements, location of the community within the radiation pollution zones, as well as the factor of location of the territorial community by calculating the coefficient determined as a share of the division of the capitalized rental income standard value for residential and public lands of the territorial community by a similar value of the rental income for settlements with a population of 5 to 20 thousand people.