Small businesses have no incentive to develop.
75% of entrepreneurs are considering scenarios that will help avoid increasing the tax burden. The options include closing or suspending businesses, restricting income and dissolving companies. These are the results of a survey by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in which 23 thousand individual entrepreneurs from 87 regions of Russia participated.
After reducing the income threshold for paying VAT from 60 million to 20 million rubles. 27% of respondents are thinking about reducing or closing their business.
26% plan to curb growth.
24% are considering crushing.
23% do not intend to change jobs.
The new rules have already affected the economics of organizations - 29% of respondents raised prices, 32% kept them at the same level, sacrificing profits. Only 5.8% of entrepreneurs manage to fully compensate for the increase in costs by raising prices, according to Opora Russia.
Another signal is a refusal to develop. In August and September, 83.2% of the private entrepreneurs did not invest in fixed assets. Businesses postpone the purchase of equipment, open new locations and recruit employees.
Entrepreneurs also outlined measures that could reduce incentives to go into the shadows. According to another CCI survey, 55% of the participants see advantages to the legality and transparency of the effective business, 46% are in favor of stable threshold values for the simplified tax system, and a third are in favor of reducing the administrative pressure.
Next year, the annual income limit at which a business in the simple tax system is exempt from paying VAT will remain at 20 million rubles. Initially, it was planned to reduce it to 15 million rubles in 2027 and 10 million in 2028. However, Law No. 228-FZ of July 4, 2026 set the current rate at least until the end of 2029. A proposal to restore the previous limit of 60 million rubles. Members of Parliament did not support this. The bill was submitted to the State Duma in September, but the Ministry of Finance opposed it and pointed to possible budget losses.
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