29.07.2024

The number of self-employed in Moscow has exceeded 1.7 million

The number of tax payers on professional income in the capital as of July 1, 2024 exceeded 1.7 million people. This was reported by Maria Bagreeva, Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Head of the Department of Economic Policy and Development of the city.

“In Moscow works 16% of all self-employed registered in Russia, which indicates the creation in the city of attractive conditions for microbusiness. As of July 1, 2024, their number reached 1.73 million. The income of the capital's self-employed for the entire duration of the tax regime, which started working in Moscow on January 1, 2019, amounted to almost 1.2 trillion rubles, including 225 billion rubles for the first six months of this year,” the deputy mayor noted. 

The advantages of such a taxation regime are simple registration and the transmission of data on income received in an automated mode. Self-employed persons are also not obliged to submit tax reports and use cash register equipment. Tax on professional income is in demand among those who do not hire employees.

The most popular activities of the self-employed in Moscow, who indicated them when registering, are passenger transportation, delivery, renting out apartments, advertising and marketing, construction and tutoring.

In the first six months of 2024, payers of tax on professional income issued 60.1 million checks to clients. The average check at the end of June increased by 12% compared to the same month last year and reached 3,351 rubles.

Tax deductions have also increased: in six months, the self-employed transferred 46% more to the city budget than a year earlier - 6.7 billion rubles. In total, since the beginning of the tax regime, the Moscow budget has received more than 30 billion rubles of tax on professional income.

The city has created a modern educational infrastructure for career development, including entrepreneurial career. In Moscow there is a center “Professions of the Future” on Shchepkina Street (38, building 1). For three and a half months here one can learn one of 75 in-demand professions in various sectors of the economy.

The capital authorities support novice entrepreneurs. In the centers “My Work” on Shabolovka Street (48) and “My Career” on Sergia Radonezhskogo Street (1, building 1) before starting a business you can undergo career guidance testing, draw up a business plan, choose a form of ownership, register as self-employed, individual entrepreneur or open a limited liability company, as well as find your first clients and get help in promotion.

The Small Business of Moscow (SBU) and the employment center “My Work” will organize the project “I am self-employed” starting from 2021. Its participants will learn how to obtain the status of self-employed and develop their business in various spheres - from consulting to tourism.

And since 2023, with the support of IBM, an annual competition for the self-employed “You Can!” is held, where they can tell about their products or services, how their activities benefit society and how they plan to work.

For those who want to register as self-employed or already have such a status, as well as for businesses working with the self-employed, the mbm.mos.ru portal has an ecosystem “All about self-employment from a to z”. The project helps newcomers to understand the nuances of this taxation regime and to formalize self-employment.