The number of private entrepreneurs using the self-employed regime increased by 30% during the year and reached 915 thousand by September. At the same time, a total of 17.4 million professional income tax payers are registered in Russia. The share of entrepreneurs among them is about 5%: most of the payers are not registered as individual entrepreneurs.
The growth is attributed to new tax conditions for businesses. Experts believe that the tightening of rules on simplified systems and patents forces entrepreneurs to more actively seek ways to reduce costs. Professional income tax becomes one of the options for reducing costs.
An important characteristic of the dynamics is the expansion of the group of individual entrepreneurs, and not just the total number of self-employed people. An increase of 30% per year indicates a change in the choice of tax regime within the business environment. For the state and businesses, this is a signal that new conditions in other special regimes are already affecting the economic behavior of some entrepreneurs.
Ξeconomics.