Complaint about the fine for unlawful business activity
November 6, 2008
Fine for unlawful business activity
A complainant requested help with respect to sanction proceedings conducted by the trade licensing office of the Brno Municipal Office. The authority claimed that the complainant was actively conducting a licensed trade of “registry keeping” without a trade license, whereby she allegedly performed an unlawful business activity. The activity consists in the keeping of files received earlier, at a time the complainant had a trade license obtained pursuant to the previous legislation. Given that the state subsequently changed the conditions for the conduct of the aforementioned trade and the complainant failed to fulfil the legal conditions, she lacked authorisation for continuing to perform the trade and thus performed an unlawful business activity, in the opinion of the authority.