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Entrepreneurs have not yet had time to fully “drink”, so to speak, the “cup” of increasing rates paid to the Pension Fund, when new levies are on the way.
Since 2015, the official salary from which insurance premiums are paid must be at least two times the minimum wage, otherwise the work time will not be included in the length of service required to form the basic part of the pension. Deputy Minister of Labor of the Russian Federation Andrei Pudov announced this on March 13 during the United International Pension Congress.
A group of experts from the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, commissioned by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, has developed a new pension formula, which they plan to submit for consideration to the government by April 1.
Among other measures, it is planned to gradually increase the minimum length of service required to receive a basic pension from 5 to 15 years. In addition, the employer will have to transfer contributions for the employee from an amount of at least two minimum wages per month. In 2013, this means that the employee’s official salary must be at least 10,400 rubles, otherwise his work is not included in the length of service that entitles him to receive a basic pension. If 15 years of experience with a sufficient salary have not been accumulated, the employee can only count on a social pension (in 2013 - just over 3,600 rubles).
What can I say? The authorities at the highest level decided to get rid of small businesses. There is practically no place left for the individual entrepreneur in the present, and there is no place for it in the future.
Is this good or bad? It’s good, probably, for those who, due to “post-Soviet” trauma, perceive any person who works “for themselves” as a speculator, a huckster, almost a swindler. Such people feel good because someone else feels bad, even if this reflects on them (as in the parable about the neighbor who agrees to give up an eye, if only the neighbor would lose both). And I think it is indisputable that by depriving people of the opportunity to do their own thing, things will become worse for everyone.
First of all, because, having taken away the existing occupation, the authorities offer nothing in return. At least in our city. Operating production - LPK, Kronostar, the railway do not particularly need personnel. It is unlikely that former entrepreneurs and their employees will fill the shortage of doctors. I doubt that they will decide en masse to become road workers or builders. Thus, competition for decently paid jobs in the public sector will increase. But former entrepreneurs, mostly modern and active people, know how to work and compete. It’s just a pity that such positions are filled mainly “through connections” and not on a competitive basis.
The outflow from the city of able-bodied, competitive, hardworking middle-aged people who want and know how to work will increase. In addition to the fact that they will leave themselves, their children will leave with them, our population is already aging, the process will go even faster. Whether this is good or bad, decide for yourself.
Having lost the annoying competition in the form of "ipeshki", the networks will become even richer, but, unfortunately, this will have little effect on income to the city treasury. Chain stores are more convenient and cheaper, especially for those who have a car to take their purchases home and the means to buy a bunch of products to get a significant discount with a discount card. But, for example, from Leninsky, you can’t run to the Admiral for salt and matches. What can we say about such settlements as Varakinsky or Shekshema. Here, in five years, the authorities will definitely have to return to the practice of food stalls, if by that time there is someone to organize them for.
There will be fewer people with average incomes in the city, which means poorer people and a poorer city. With the “exodus” of individual entrepreneurs, the unique spirit of an active city dweller, a caring, responsible, enterprising person will also disappear. There are many such entrepreneurs who don’t believe it, let them look through the file of the Vetluzhsky Krai newspaper. Almost every issue is complete without thanks to one or another entrepreneur. Or is this all not from the heart?
Someone whose profession allows them, for example, hairdressers, builders, will go “into the shadows.” Here, however, there will be room for the regulatory authorities to roam. This approach of the state to the employment of citizens - not to stimulate business activity, but to create the preconditions for illegal entrepreneurship, strikes, first of all, the state itself, as it undermines trust in the government, destabilizes the economy, and creates an insurmountable gap between the government and society.
Sharya residents are still not spoiled with quality goods and services. Due to recent events there will be even fewer of them. High-quality goods and services are expensive, and providing them will no longer be profitable. As consumers, we will lose in this too.
Starting from December last year, and this year, 2013, there are 190 fewer entrepreneurs in the city; in the country as a whole, this figure reaches 300 thousand. This is just the beginning. The “exodus” of small businesses to “free bread” will not stop there. Popular shopping centers, Sputnik, Central and others, which were recently filled to capacity, are emptying. The city administration shrugs. There is nowhere and no one to complain to.