Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Putin: the decision to exempt self-employed from tax will be made soon – TASS

NOVO-OGARYOVO, September 21. /TASS/. The state will not collect tax payments from self-employed in the next two to three years, all agree, and such decision will be made soon. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the meeting of the Council for strategic development and priority projects.

“All now agree that no payment in the next two to three years will not. Just need to finish it. All agree. It will be done soon, I hope,” said Putin.

Earlier in the day Vladimir Putin announced a possible release of self-employed citizens from taxes for a period of two years. The head of state noted that the account of self-employed citizens in Russia in the millions of people who remain in the “shadow” to “not deal with a bureaucracy, with extortion, with constant checks and loads may be excessive for the activity”.

“We have repeatedly discussed – now just with Dmitry Anatolyevich (Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation) have talked about this, and on the party forums within the “United Russia” and onf – the need for a certain period, say two years, to exempt the self-employed generally from paying taxes and mandatory contributions so that they could enter into normal rhythm legal work and that it was not burdensome for them,” said the President.

Putin also demanded “to eliminate any possibility of recognition of activities of self-employed citizens, illegal entrepreneurship”. “If necessary, it is necessary to make relevant amendments to the legislation,” the President ordered.

overall, according to the head of the state “self-employed citizens need to offer a clear and convenient tool for interaction with government, that they could quietly, so to speak “in the white”, to lead, to develop their business, albeit small, but own, to earn money honestly through their work and abilities.”

the Head of state said about the need “to make a significant step forward for the development of entrepreneurship in rural areas”, which need to help farmers and owners of farms to develop sales of its products, to establish a system of guarantee and credit support, to assist in the organization of production. Meanwhile, Putin noted that the Lipetsk, Tyumen regions and other regions have accumulated positive experience in the sphere of agricultural cooperation. “I propose to develop mechanisms for replication of best regional practices”, – said the President.

Putin said that a big niche for small business development there and in the service sector. “We need to actively spread to the whole country step-by-step system to support entrepreneurs who want to work in this area”, – said the head of state, calling an important tool in the field of so-called “business Navigator”, whereby the entrepreneur can obtain all the necessary information.

At the meeting the question of support for self-employed people have raised the head of the organization “OPORA Russia” Alexander Kalinin. “For the self-employed the question is not solved, these people could work and pay a reasonable payment, and then grew to micro-Finance to small and then to medium,” said Kalinin.

In 2015, the Commissioner of the Russian President for human entrepreneurs Boris Titov has proposed the establishment of “Institute of self-employed to small business development in Russia, which, according to him, now employs about 22 million Russians, which are in fact unregistered entrepreneurs, that is, do not pay taxes, pension contributions. Accordingly, in order to legalize their business need to create an Institute of self-employed.

the Pension Fund of Russia collected in 2015 nearly 80 billion roubles of insurance contributions for compulsory pension insurance of self-employed. Every year the self-employed have to pay premiums for 19,356 thousand roubles on obligatory pension insurance (OPS) and 3,796 thousand rubles a year for compulsory health insurance.

the Total amount of contributions to the pension Fund in 2015 was about 4 trillion rubles, in 2016 FIU plans to build a 4.2 trillion rubles.

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