The Federation Council is considering banning traveling abroad for “self-employed citizens” who do not pay taxes.

Valery Ryazansky, chairman of the Federation Council’s Social Policy Committee, believes that officials need to pay close attention to self-employed citizens who do not pay taxes, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports . None of the agencies can accurately count the number of Russians who work for themselves and do not pay taxes. According to the Ministry of Labor, it is 12 million people, representatives of the Rosstat consider this figure to be at least twice as low.

The authorities do not plan to deprive self-employed citizens (that is, in fact, freelancers) free medical care or other domestic services. Instead, the possibility of introducing other restrictions is considered. For example, the ban on traveling abroad. “It may be determined that if people, receiving income, do not legalize their relationship with the state, then yes, they will receive emergency medical care, but, for example, they will not be able to go abroad. Thus, the state will remind citizens that they have accumulated unfulfilled social obligations, ”said Ryazansky.

According to the official, already now some people are denied accrual of pension benefits. In order to receive a pension, a citizen must comply with a number of conditions, including reaching a certain age, number of years worked and getting points. If there is no length of service, and the score is minimum, then the Russian citizen has to wait until 65 years, after which the minimum old-age pension begins to be paid. In the regions it is no more than 7-8 thousand rubles per month.
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Freelancers will not be forced to “out of the shadows”, although the state may create a number of conditions under which the “self-employed” citizens will still think about starting to pay taxes to the state.

To this end, officials remind you, you only need to go to the tax office where you live and apply for a patent to register as a self-employed citizen. The patent is available to such categories of self-employed as photographers, independent journalists, hairdressers, seamstresses, salespeople, nannies, etc. A patent for registration as a self-employed citizen costs about 20 thousand rubles a year in Russia.

According to data cited by Gazeta.ru, the crisis in Russia has contributed to a sharp increase in the number of freelancers. Thus, only in the online services of personal services, the number of active users who are ready to take on various tasks has increased several times in just a year - from 2015 to 2016. Among other categories of “self-employed” people, for example, gamers who earn money from game characters, representatives of cleaning services, compilers of horoscopes and others.