In Russian Federation, underage citizens have the opportunity to participate in family business initiatives, which contributes to the accumulation of their own capital and savings. This phenomenon has become possible thanks to the introduction of digital technologies, which have significantly changed the business environment. Age is no longer considered a limiting factor for the participation of minors in the processes of earning money in the online space, which allows them to be considered as full participants in economic and legal relations. This dynamic opens up new perspectives for young people, building their entrepreneurial skills and ensuring their active participation in financial activities from an early age. Current domestic criminal procedural legislation contains a norm of placing the burden of payment of procedural costs on the legal representatives of minors. However, this provision is rather declarative in nature and in essence does not find practical application in reality. This indicates a gap between the norms of the legislation and their practical implementation, which requires attention and adjustment on the part of the relevant authorities. The authors of the article conclude that this procedure is outdated due to the fact that minors in the information society are able to independently dispose of their own capital, to which their legal representatives do not have access, which necessitates modernization of the existing conceptual and applied approaches to regulating the procedure for the recovery of procedural costs from minors in criminal proceedings. It is proposed that a different procedure for compensating secondary expenses of the state for criminal proceedings be provided for the legal representatives of minors. A wide range of methods of scientific cognition was used in conducting the present study. General scientific methods were used, including analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, generalization, abstraction and analogy, as well as the method of ascending from the abstract to the concrete. In addition, the study relied on a systematic approach, formal-logical analysis, logical-legal methodology and interpretive methods. The integration of these various approaches allowed us to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the subject under study.