"Are You Serious?!": Legal Proceedings Have Been Initiated Against A Belarusian Woman Over Six Kopecks
1- 16.08.2026, 13:14
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A woman received a letter from the Enforcement Division of the Frunze District of Minsk.
A few days ago, Maria, a resident of Minsk, received a letter from the Enforcement Division of the Frunze District of Minsk. From the document, she learned that enforcement proceedings had been initiated against her. But it wasn’t that fact that surprised her—it was the amount of the debt. It’s not even close to a ruble. Maria described this situation in her Threads post, according to "Zerkalo".
According to Maria, she received the certified letter from the Enforcement Department on Friday.
“And I’m a little pissed off,” she wrote on her account. “Are you serious?! Have you run out of more serious debtors already?”
The Minsk resident attached a photo showing the amount owed to her post. It totals 0.06 rubles.
In the comments, the woman explained that she was a little late paying her professional income tax. Six kopecks is the penalty for two weeks.
“By the way, I had already paid it by the time I received the letter,” Maria noted.
In less than a day, the user’s post garnered over 150,000 views. There were more than 200 comments below it. In some of them, people joked about the amount owed, but more often they shared their own similar stories.
“I had a debt (as it turned out) of 0 rubles, 00 kopecks. I received a letter from an entire debt collection department threatening me to pay the debt”;
“I had 0.01 rubles due to a tax error; it was a real mess because if it wasn’t resolved quickly, they would freeze all my accounts (as a sole proprietor). I received a text message without the amount listed. While I was on my way to the tax office, my accountant and I frantically tried to figure out what we might have underpaid”;
“The funniest thing. I got a similar notice for a single kopeck of an allegedly unpaid traffic fine… The bailiffs and their management sure learned a lot that day”;
“I had a debt of three rubles; now I always overpay by five rubles to avoid having my account frozen. These hassles end up costing more”;
“An inspector from the tax office called me and asked me to deposit 20 kopecks into the account, since she couldn’t file a claim for such a small amount. I paid it all off in five seconds, and the matter was closed”;
“It’s good that I received the letter. My six kopecks had turned into a 150-ruble penalty. But the Main Directorate [of Enforcement] acknowledged it was a mistake, since the debt had been paid immediately—the employee had simply lost track of the payment”;
“About four years ago, the Social Security Fund blocked my sole proprietor account over a debt of eight kopecks. I was in another city on a business trip. There was an “MTBank” nearby; I wanted to pay it, but they said the fee was three rubles. But I’d already paid ten kopecks! I found a “Belarusbank” branch there with no fee.”
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