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Self-employed entrepreneurs to be allowed selling goods without documents, but taxes will be raised

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Self-employed entrepreneurs to be allowed selling goods without documents, but taxes will be raised

Self-employed entrepreneurs in Belarus are to receive a right to sell goods without accompanying documents confirming their origin, but at the same time taxes are to be increased.

This decision is found in the draft law regulating this sphere of economic relations. Charter97.org website has been informed about that by the Ministry of Taxation.

“Self-employed businessmen, single tax payers, are given a right to sell goods (with the exception of excisable goods) imported from the territory of member states of the Customs union to Belarus for retail trade with payment of a single tax, to carry out retail trade in retail facilities (with the exception of shops) and in trading places of markets without accompanying documents, which conform purchase (supply) of these goods. At the same time, those who carry out retail trade in goods without documents, should pay the single tax with a multiplying factor 2 and pay an increased fixed rate VAT,” the report reads.

It is expected that the draft decree is to be signed in the nearest future.

The Ministry of Taxation notes that before the draft decree is officially published, those self-employed entrepreneurs who pay the single tax, who are planning to carry out retail trade in goods without documents in March 2015, must bring a tax declaration on the single tax before they start their work, and to pay the single tax and the fixed rate VAT. The tax declaration is to be in paper format in accordance with Enactment No.82 of the Ministry of Taxation as of November 15, 2011, which was in force until March 1, 2015. This declaration should include calculation of the single tax with a multiplying factor 2 for selling goods without documents, and a fixed rate VAT (two rates of the single tax, not including the multiplying factor of 2 for selling goods without documents).

“After the decree comes into force, tax declarations of March 2015 are submitted (amended declarations of March 2015), and the single tax and the VAT for March 2015 are to be paid in time (not later than March 31, 2015 according to the draft law).

We remind that March 1 marks the end of the period within which sole traders could sell leftover stock of consumer goods imported from the countries of the Customs union without documents confirming origin and purchase of the goods. The grace period was offered by the president’s decree No.222. Self-employed entrepreneurs many times tried to explain the government that it would be impossible to work under the new conditions for them, but until the last moment their opinion was ignored by officials.

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