The objective of the present article is to work up methods of payment rate per a unit of wood being harvested on the lands – the property of Saint-Petersburg, the largest Russian industrial centre. To achieve this goal various scales for gas-resistance and ionizing properties of tree vegetation, sound absorption and dust-separating abilities of plants, the intensiveness of their phytoncides release and carbon dioxide assimilation have been used. Payment rates per a unit of wood harvested on the lands being Saint-Petersburg property have been worked up per 1м3 of wood for standing timber, industrial wood and fuel wood. Due to the fact that economic and geographical factors of Leningradskaya oblast and Saint-Petersburg are different it has been suggested to introduce forest belt taxation for Saint-Petersburg including all the parks and city woods and introduce three classes of taxation depending on the distance of delivery (from the place where a timber stand is to be cut to the place of processing or shipment): the first – up to 10 km, the second – from 10.1 km to 25 km and the third – from 25.1 km to 40 km.