Every tenth resident of the region is self-employed. The number of citizens registered as self-employed in the Saratov region exceeded 220 thousand people. Such data were published by the Federal Tax Service. Now every tenth resident of the region uses a special tax regime, the Federal Tax Service noted. During the 6 years of the professional income tax, the total profits of the self-employed in the region amounted to more than 106 billion rubles, the amount of taxes paid to the budgets exceeded 4.2 billion. The most popular areas of activity for the self-employed in the region are the transportation of passengers and cargo, the service sector as well as the original production of goods.