If the tax on freelancers is increased from 4-6% to 13%, it would be fair to take into account their length of service to form future pensions. That is, in this case, the length of service should be counted as if they were a full-time employee. This opinion was expressed in an interview with socialbites.ca by Anastasia Ryazantseva, head of tax support for the service for safe transactions with project contractors Solar Staff.
“The self-employed do not actually count their length of service as part of their activities (except for those with voluntary insurance). It is worth noting that increasing taxes without providing seniority and other social security benefits to the self-employed will be perceived extremely negatively. In this context, the issue of justice and support for small businesses is a particularly serious issue,” he said.
According to him, Russian authorities have not yet officially spoken about increasing taxes for freelancers, but occasionally talk about this topic comes up in the public sphere.
Now, self-employment status means paying tax at 4% (if services are provided to individuals) or 6% (if services are provided to legal entities, including foreign ones). This preferential regime was introduced in 2019 to support micro-entrepreneurship and certain categories of citizens in order to bring their activities out of the shadows and officially legalize them. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov promised to maintain the regime until 2028.
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Source: Gazeta
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