Rustam Minnikhanov on the activities of self-employed: We need such steps that will allow people to quietly enter the legal business

Today, Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in the XI Extended Meeting of the Council for Entrepreneurship under the President of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The event takes place on the site of the “Pyramid” complex (Kazan).

An online broadcast of the meeting has been organized on the Official Tatarstan website.

Let us recall that the meeting is attended by the Presidential Commissioner for the Rights of Entrepreneurs of the Russian Federation, Boris Titov. The event was also attended by State Duma Deputy Gennady Onishchenko, State Duma Deputy Airat Farrakhov, Director of the Investment Policy Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia Milena Arslanova and others.

More than 200 businessmen participated in the meeting.

The event is moderated by entrepreneur Aidar Ismagilov.

The agenda includes topics such as developing and supporting the activities of self-employed entrepreneurs, such as sanitary standards for self-employed pastry chefs, reducing the risks of self-employed entrepreneurs when working with banks, registering foreign citizens as self-employed, participating of self-employed in state procurement, cooperation with legal entities, and new market outlets for self-employed.

Speaking with a welcoming speech, President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov said that the issue of the self-employed was very relevant. He recalled that Tatarstan was among the four pilot regions, where, from January 1, 2019, the experimental tax regime for the self-employed is in effect. So, on March 4 of this year, more than 4 thousand self-employed citizens registered in the republic.

“My personal opinion is that the decision on the self-employed is very correct, well-developed. But, nevertheless, when we began to implement all these approaches, we saw that many more questions need to be improved. Including improvements at the federal level”.

Rustam Minnikhanov noted that there were colleagues from federal agencies, including the State Duma of Russia, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, and there was a great opportunity to convey to them those problems, unresolved issues, whether legal or legal, that could be interpreted in different ways, so that this law was useful and worked as we would like.

“I believe that in our country we need such steps that will allow people to quietly enter the legal business. Today, we need some action for all this to happen. We have a number of topics that need to be discussed”, said Rustam Minnikhanov. He also recalled that earlier work was carried out on project teams.

Boris Titov, Presidential Commissioner for the Rights of Entrepreneurs under the President of the Russian Federation, in turn, stated that within the framework of the experiment conducted in four regions, Kazan is the center of many entrepreneurial qualifications that work in different directions.

“And it is here that we see the pulse of this small and medium business, and therefore it is important for us that the experiment — one of the most complex and progressive, technologically complex — succeeds. Indeed, we are putting the relationship between business and government in the digital domain today, and how the experiment goes, what are the pros and cons - it is very important to get “feedback” in time and correct the legislation accordingly”.

According to Boris Titov, this serious technological digital experiment - it brings to the legal sphere those businesses that were generally invisible, on the other hand - creates new opportunities for relationships between small and large enterprises, because you can write a check through the new system. “But the experiment is, of course, difficult, so to a lesser extent it performs the function we were waiting for — this is the mass legalization of the millions of entrepreneurs who are working today but are working in the “gray or black sphere”, the Presidential Commissioner for the Rights of Entrepreneurs under the President of the Russian Federation said.

“Here it is necessary to stimulate entrepreneurs to master technologies”, says Boris Titov. “And we need feedback”.

During the meeting, entrepreneurs made suggestions on the practice of implementing the experiment on introduction of a special tax regime "Tax on professional income" (ILAR General Direstor Ildar Nizameyev), discussed the cooperation of self-employed with legal entities, the possibility of reducing the risks of self-employed entrepreneurs when working with banks.

The issue of registration of foreign citizens as self-employed was also raised (Irina Danilova, General Director of Sultanat restaurant).