two months after beginning of pandemic crisis, the government recalled the self-employed: first, they paid them back in 2019, taxes on income, and secondly, they will receive tax capital in the amount of one minimum wage (12 130 rubles). Well, in the conditions of rigid quarantine restrictions and total collapse of businesses is good news. However, “not too late to drink Borjomi”? Many freelancers keep their employment will not help no action.
the Number of people officially apply for the status of self-employed has exceeded 650 thousand. And the opportunity to register is now operating in 23 regions, said President Vladimir Putin. According to him, “these people believe the government, believe his assurances to work safe and civilized”. So, they should be supported and even encouraged at the expense of the tax capital “they will be able to spend this year’s tax payment without diverting their own funds, keeping their income”.
Recall the experiment with the tax regime for self-employed started in 2019 in four regions — Moscow, Tatarstan, Kaluga and Moscow regions. People with income up to 2.4 million rubles a year providing paid services and do not have employees had the opportunity to register (through the app-cash) as self-employed and pay tax at a rate of 4% of income with other individuals, 6% — with companies. In December, Mikhail Mishustin, at that time the head of the tax service, estimated the number of self-employed 330 thousand, and their total tax payments to the Treasury — about 1 billion rubles.
most Likely, for payments to self-employed will involve Federal funds, says IAC senior analyst “Alpari” Anna Bodrov. According to her, the idea is promising, but affects a limited number of people. the President says that the self-employed believe the government need to be encouraged. Well, as individual entrepreneurs, who also work in the informal sector? There are no tax incentives are not provided. In addition, this measure of power is clearly too late, says Bodrov. Not all micro back to life after the abolition of the regime of self-isolation. According to the most optimistic estimates, only its smaller part (about 35%) will continue its activities in the pre-crisis volume.
to Return self-employed 1 billion roubles and to pay each tax capital in the amount of one minimum wage — no problem for the state with its considerable reserves of tens of trillions, says Professor of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Alexey Prong. And the money will be allocated from the Federal budget, not regional, in which such subsidies are not stipulated by the law. Meanwhile, the expert reminds, the great mass of self-employed in Russia still remains in the shadows. And now finds outXia, due to its informal status, these people have preserved their income and employment because they are not subject to official quarantine procedure. Such is the unexpected twist.
“All restrictive measures are concentrated in large cities, capitals of regions, says Barb. — On the day I returned from the Vladimir region, 200 kilometers from Moscow. There are no masks, no social distancing, no mode of isolation. Works catering, and the authorities look the other way, preferring to save jobs and to the taxes. To lose revenue, no one wants”.
Help the self-employed — it is no doubt good, but ineffective and insufficient, according to the interlocutor of “MK”. Previous anti-crisis packages with a total volume of not more than 3% of GDP (in Germany and France — 15-20% of GDP) helped to stabilize the domestic economy. Moreover, for eighteen months the number of unemployed in the country has doubled — from 700 thousand to 1.4 million.
Last year’s net profit of self-employed amounted to an average of 300 thousand rubles for the year. Because they pay tax at a rate of 4% of income, to return to them this money will not be easy, says doctor of Economics (HSE) Sergei Smirnov. Another question — how many of them will be able to retain their employment after the pandemic recede.
