ON THE REFORM OF MUNICIPAL UNITARY ENTERPRISES

Purpose. The article aims to analyze the modern reform of municipal unitary enterprises, which involves their liquidation or reorganization with the transition to private business of municipal property. The article offers an analysis of the consequences of the introduction of the draft law «on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation (regarding the establishment of a ban on the creation and implementation of unitary enterprises)» currently under consideration in the State Duma. Methodology. To study the prospects of reorganization and liquidation of municipal unitary enterprises, the following methods are used: dialectical, analysis, synthesis, modeling, statistical, formal legal, etc. Summary. The author, noting the existing disadvantages of such an organizational and legal form as a municipal unitary enterprise, is convinced that the transformation of unitary enterprises into state institutions proposed by the Government on the basis of FAS proposals or their privatization will not lead to financial recovery and increase the competitiveness of municipal unitary enterprises, since their sphere of activity is social, focused on profit extraction, and on meeting the vital needs of the population of municipalities. This system is costly and can exist only with state and municipal budget support. The results of the study are designed to prove the impossibility of reforming municipal unitary enterprises without modernization of municipal infrastructure and housing facilities.

municipal unitary enterprise, reform, municipal property, privatization, local finance