MINSK, 4 Dec – Sputnik. What changes await microbusiness and individual entrepreneurs in Belarus in the next 2022, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmitry Krutoy told on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel.

The Institute of Individual Entrepreneurship in Belarus is now being transformed: the final version of the draft Tax Code should arrive in Belarus in 2022, already prepared for approval.

“Certain thoughts, ideas for transforming this sector, of course, are.

He noted that small business, microbusiness occupies a very important share in the Belarusian economy.

“If we are talking about microbusiness, it is almost 800 thousand people – 20% of those employed in the economy,” we are an Adviser.

The Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration drew attention to several special ones related to the new rules for the work of individual entrepreneurs and micro-enterprises. First, the simplicity and efficiency of regulation.

“The categories of microbusiness that we have today should be reformatted next year,” said Krutoy.

He specified that today there are a number of categories: 96 thousand micro-enterprises, 270 thousand individual entrepreneurs, 40 thousand artisans, about 45 thousand self-employed. In addition, the activities of agricultural estates are also regulated separately.

Secondly, according to Krutoy, representatives of microbusiness participate in financing government spending.

One employed in microbusiness pays 7.5 thousand rubles in taxes. One individual entrepreneur on a conventional system pays 11 thousand rubles. Unfortunately, they are a minority. The entrepreneur who uses the simplified tax system pays only 1.9 thousand rubles in tax. And an entrepreneur pays 1.7 thousand rubles on a single tax, “he said.

According to the data cited by Dmitry Krutoy, when entrepreneurs switched from “simplified” to a single tax, the amount of tax revenues decreased by 40%, in 2020 by 30%.

“Such figures cannot be ignored. It is impossible to be in the gray zone and not pay taxes, ”the deputy head of the presidential administration is allowed.

The third point is the introduction of cashless payments.

“No one in the world has figured out how to defeat this evil – wages in envelopes, tax evasion,” said Krutoy.

In his opinion, the introduction of a full-fledged electronic tax platform in the country by January 1, 2023 should help.

In addition, the country is long overdue for the adoption of a law on microbusiness.

“The deputies, our parliamentarians must work. The topic is sensitive.

And fourth. In terms of taxation, the country is increasing the size of the single tax, the official said.

“This topic is left to the mercy of local authorities, in the regions, taking into account income and demand, the situation is different, people have different incomes, because differentiation is needed here,” said Dmitry Krutoy.

He added that for individual entrepreneurs, for some types of trade, the simplified taxation system will still remain for next year.

“For some types it will be canceled. The rates of the single tax will be increased, but it is assumed that from 2023 entrepreneurs will go to a single form of taxation – payment of income tax in an amp of 18%,” the source said in an interview with Belarus 1.

So, for the self-employed there will be new changes, from 2023, by analogy with the EAEU countries, a tax on professional income will be introduced. Its essence is clarified by Dmitry Krutoy:

In his opinion, such a gradation is quite simple and understood, and such measures will also increase the efficiency of this segment of the economy.