Deadline for registration and opening of an individual entrepreneur (IP). How much time does a future entrepreneur need to spend to register an individual entrepreneur?

When the decision to start your own business is made finally and irrevocably, the entrepreneur’s desire is understandable - to register his own business as quickly as possible. And if it is difficult to bypass the legislation on the regulated number of days of verification when registering an individual entrepreneur, then finding a method that is optimal in terms of timing is realistic. The time frame for self-registration can vary from one working day to twelve. It all depends on the initiative of the applicant and the method of submitting documents.

Registration of individual entrepreneurs - legal regulation and necessary documents

The main document that regulates the registration of a private enterprise, the steps of the participants in the process and the relationships arising in connection with the registration of individual entrepreneurs, as well as the scheme for entering new participants into the unified state register of entrepreneurs - Federal Law No. 129 of 08.08.2001 Chapter VII.1. “State registration of individual entrepreneurs.” Every year, clarifications are made to this normative act; the latest changes were established in October 2017, this indicates that the law is “living”. The main regulator, performing the function of a registration authority, is the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation.

According to this legislative act, the official registration of individuals. of a person as a private entrepreneur must be carried out by the tax service within no more than 3 working days from the moment the registration authority receives the full required package of documents.

The second important point when registering an individual entrepreneur is a citizen who plans to register his business without forming a legal entity. person must contact the territorial tax office at the place of residence (registration or temporary registration).

Third, there are several categories of citizens for whom various packages of documents are provided for registering them; this depends on the age of the applicant, registration status, and whether the citizen is a resident of the Russian Federation (Article 22.1., paragraph 1).

Let's consider the most common option - when an adult citizen of the Russian Federation with permanent registration registers with the Federal Tax Service. In this case, to register a private business you need to submit to the registration authority:

• original application in form No. P21001, signed personally by the applicant (exception - provision of the form via electronic document management);
• copies of all pages of the Russian passport;
• document confirming payment of the state duty.

Please note: despite the fact that many sources indicate the need to provide a receipt for payment of the fee when submitting documents for registration of an individual entrepreneur, this is not the responsibility of the applicant. The legal requirement is to pay the state fee, but the provision of the document is left to the discretion of the payer. In the event that the payment document for payment of the duty is not on hand (lost, could not be printed during online payment, etc.), a specialist from the registering institution is obliged to make a request through the state information system of state and municipal payments (GIS GMP). They do not have the right to refuse the applicant registration of an individual entrepreneur for this reason. This is regulated by clause No. 47 of the Administrative Regulations, approved by order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation dated September 30, 2016 No. 169n.

For persons with temporary registration, minors, as well as foreigners and stateless persons, the package of documents is slightly wider. You can become a private entrepreneur even if you do not have a permanent residence permit.

Three preparatory steps before registering a business

As Federal Law No. 129 states, you can register a private business within three working days, and judging by the above list of three documents, preparing the necessary package will not take much time.

It is obvious that each applicant can independently cope with the preparation of the necessary documentation. So is it worth paying money to intermediaries for basic things that you can do yourself? It is worth considering that turning to intermediaries, one way or another, increases the time for registering a business. You need to visit the office, negotiate or get advice, come to an agreement, go to a notary, etc. Among other things, the first information experience, as well as the practice of interacting with the main regulator of the country, will be useful to the entrepreneur when running his own business.

If we consider business registration from the point of view of when a business needs to be registered as quickly as possible, you need to know that today there are options for quickly self-registering an individual enterprise. Therefore, the obvious conclusion is that it’s faster and cheaper to do everything yourself.

To correctly register an individual entrepreneur, you need to prepare before submitting the package of documents to the tax office by taking several steps:

• decide on the main type of business activity;
• choose a specific taxation system for yourself;
• prepare a package of documents for individual entrepreneur registration.

Let's look at the nuances and fundamental things that you need to keep in mind when preparing to register your own business.

The first thing without which it is impossible to start your own business is the choice of OKVED codes.

You need to know that the All-Russian Classifier of Economic Activities was changed in September 2017. Therefore, you should carefully consider the choice of source, and determine the code according to the current register of codes - OK 029–2014 (NACE rev. 2). You can familiarize yourself with OKVED codes on the free resource “ConsultantPlus” using the hyperlink.

It should be noted that the applicant can define an almost unlimited number of codes for his work, with the exception of those that are not used for individual entrepreneurs (banking, for example). The legislation gives some freedom in this matter. When filling out the application, you should not go too deep into the subgroups of the code. It will be enough to indicate the main activity code - the first 4 digits, all auxiliary codes of this group (+2 digits after the main code) will be automatically included in the permitted activities of the individual entrepreneur.

The main thing at the initial stage is to decide on the main type of work and take several additional OKVED codes that may be needed for business.

Here you need to be guided by the fact that often a private company works in several directions: the company can produce, sell, deliver its products to consumers, etc. From which it follows that at the beginning of your business you need to take all the codes that may be useful to the entrepreneur when doing business. You can indicate up to fifty codes in your application, but you don’t need to type everything you can.
The selected main and several additional codes will need to be included in the application for individual entrepreneur registration.

It is important to indicate in the application the current codes approved in 2017

You need to know that a beginning entrepreneur is given no more than a month from the date of filing the application to decide on the taxation system under which he will work until the end of the calendar year (at least), because switching to another regime, in most cases, is possible only with 1 January. Therefore, in order not to contact the inspectorate several times, the best option is to submit a notification about the application of the preferential treatment to the Federal Tax Service along with form No. P21001. But this is only necessary if the individual entrepreneur does not plan to work under the general regime, since if the applicant does not communicate his intention, he will be charged with ORN anyway.

When choosing a taxation system, a businessman has the right to choose any of the five existing ones, and there are regimes that can be combined. Each tax regime has its pros and cons, the decision is up to the entrepreneur.

If a person does not intend to engage in farming, a simplified system is recognized as the best option for starting a business. You can download form No. 26.2–1 - notification of application of the simplified tax system. The form is filled out according to general standards. There are detailed comments on the blocks in the form itself; it’s difficult to mess something up.

Table: comparison of 5 tax regimes

So, at the preparatory stage, selecting OKVED codes (if the entrepreneur already knows what he will do) will take no more than 10 minutes. The choice of tax system is obvious.

The last step remains - to prepare an application for business registration.

Let's look at the nuances of filling out application form No. P21001, so that incorrect execution of the document does not return the applicant to the initial stage.

• The details depend only on the method of filling out the form:
• on paper;

(or) in electronic form.

All information in the form is standard, the main thing is to follow all the requirements for document preparation, which are checked using machine reading:

• The form is filled out in black ink;
• in capital block letters;
• for each letter, number or sign - a separate sign;
• if there is “Yo”, this letter is used;
• It is prohibited to make corrections to the completed form;
• if the template is filled out on a computer, use the font Courier New No. 18, black, set the case to caps lock (capital letters);
• It is prohibited to print information using double-sided printing;
• The sheets are not fastened together.

To prevent your application for registration with the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs from returning for revision, you need to take into account the list of the most common errors:

• the applicant’s TIN has not been entered - you can clarify your identification number by simply indicating your full name and passport details;
• there is no index of the place of registration - you can check the number of your post office;
• The region code is not specified - verification is possible via hyperlink;
• the most common errors - in standard address forms - it is necessary to fill in two columns: on the left - the type of object (it is mandatory to fill in completely according to the standard: city, house, apartment), on the right - the number;
• passport code - 21, between the series and number - a space;
• if the data is not included in one line, put a hyphen (-):
• OKVED code - fill in the first 4 digits of the code from the left edge;
• The contact telephone number is formed according to the following rules:
  • in a landline number, the first digit is 8, the city code is in brackets (-);
  • The mobile number starts with +7, the operator code is in brackets (-);
• It is not necessary to indicate your email address when submitting paper;
• The form must be endorsed only by the applicant (when submitted through the MFC, it is recommended to sign the document in front of a specialist).

Know: if you do not have a TIN certificate in your hands, and when checking on the tax authorities’ portal it turns out that for some reason you have not yet been assigned an identification number, do not worry. When issuing a registration package of documents, such a certificate will be issued to you in addition to the main package of a private enterprise. This point can only affect the possibility of online registration on the tax website (this simply cannot be done). But, besides this, there are other options, so this will not delay preparations for registering an individual entrepreneur. And doing this separately during the period of registering an individual entrepreneur most likely does not make sense.

Form No. P21001 can be downloaded for free from the ConsultantPlus website - the excel file is available at the link. Even an inexperienced user can fill out this form in 10-15 minutes.

Please note: if the applicant does not indicate in form No. P21001 the method of obtaining the result, documents on registration of the individual entrepreneur will be sent by mail (no earlier than 7 working days after submitting the application). And, most likely, you will have to pick up the documents at the post office in person upon presentation of your passport and postal notification.

Photo gallery: sample of filling out form No. Р21001

Title page of the application - information about the applicant Page No. 2 - registration and passport data Sheet A - main and additional OKVED codes Final sheet B - contact and method of obtaining the result, plus the applicant’s visa

It’s as easy as possible to fill out the P21001 form online and quickly register your business - do this using the tax service’s online resource.

Step-by-step instructions for filling out online form No. Р21001 on the tax regulator’s portal:

• the first step is to go to the state registration tab of the Internet portal of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation using the link;
• go to the registration page for a private entrepreneur;
• the next step is to register or log in (if you already have access) on the portal:
• indicate your login and password;
• if the applicant is already registered on the government services website, you can go to the tab for filling out the form using your EPGU account;
• next - select “new application”, it’s convenient that once you start filling out the form, you can stop and return to filling it out later, the program will save all the entered data;
• we give consent to the processing of personal data (without this, the system will not proceed further, as this is required by the legislation of the Russian Federation - Federal Law No. 152);
• Let's start filling out the online form No. P21001:
  • standard user data: full name, user email, are automatically inserted into the form;
  • if you do not know your TIN and the form does not display the identification number, you can use the “find out TIN” verification service;
  • We specify the registration address;
  • We check all filled data;
• the most important step in completing the form is choosing OKVED, if the applicant has prepared in advance and knows his codes, this procedure will not take much time, the form has easy navigation through the current list of codes, you just need to select the necessary ones;
• The penultimate step is to decide how the applicant will collect the finished documents after registering the individual entrepreneur;
• The final step in forming form No. P21001 is to wait for the form to be checked by the program; this usually takes no more than 5 minutes.

In our case, registration of a new user on the Federal Tax Service portal was completed in 3 minutes. But as the tax service informs, in some cases, checking the applicant’s data and registration may take several hours, this should be taken into account.

The online application has been completed, the time spent filling out the data is 7 minutes.

Total: the time spent on creating the application was a total of 10 minutes.

Photo gallery: step-by-step instructions for online filling out form P21001 on the website of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation

On the individual entrepreneur registration page, select the required deposit Register or go through authorization You can quickly start from the government services portal if you have an account Form a new application Select the required form Fill out the registration address Check the data, enter the missing ones Select the main and additional OKVED codes Wait for the check to finish

In order to quickly complete the formation of a package of documents for registering a private enterprise on the tax portal, you need to pay a fee. In 2018, the cost of the state fee for registering individual entrepreneurs was retained, it is equal to 800 rubles.

The whole process will take no more than 5 minutes, check:

• we continue the stage of creating an online application on the portal of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation or directly go to the state duty payment page on the tax authorities’ Internet resource using the link;
• select the tab for state fees for individual entrepreneur registration;
• in the drop-down list, select from two options the purpose of payment and KBK, depending on how we plan to submit documents: through the MFC or any other method;
• on this resource you can simply generate a payment order for payment at the bank, but we are interested in online payment, for this you must enter the payer’s TIN;
• checking the details;
• and pay, the payment method can be either by card of one of the partner banks of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, or using an electronic wallet.

Photo gallery: filling out the state duty payment form

Select the required type of duty Pay attention to the correct purpose of the payment Fill out all the blocks, otherwise the online payment will not go through Check the payer’s details and pay

The second option for submitting an online application for individual entrepreneur registration is using UKEP through the government services portal. At the same time, the cost of state duty will be reduced by 30% - 560 rubles instead of eight hundred.

Please note that in order to generate and submit form P21011 using this online resource, you need a verified user account and an enhanced qualified electronic signature (ECES).

It should be noted that the presence of UKEP is a necessary condition for the full operation of a private business with the EPGU portal (public services), the online service of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, submitting reports to the tax regulator, generating requests for a refund or offset of funds, consultations, other services of the Federal Tax Service, as well as all extra-budgetary funds. This visa allows an individual entrepreneur to remotely interact with the interdepartmental electronic control system and banks, create electronic document flow with counterparties and make payments from a current account. Therefore, we recommend obtaining UKEP when starting your business.

To do this, you just need to choose a certification center (CA) convenient for visiting, accredited by the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. A register of such centers is available on the department’s website in the “Accreditation of Certification Centers” section. Most often, such centers are within walking distance; regional information with a map of the location of the training centers on the public services portal can be viewed by following the link.

But obtaining UKEP is a paid service. Depending on the category and functions of the electronic signature, such an online visa will cost an entrepreneur from three and a half to twelve thousand rubles for 1 year. It should be clarified that the UKEP is issued to a citizen only for a period of 365 days.

Therefore, if the applicant does not yet have an e-visa, you can apply for one before submitting your application for registration. In this case, submitting documents to the Federal Tax Service and obtaining the result can be completed completely remotely, without visiting the tax office or the MFC.

Please note that this method is the fastest possible. Depending on the workload of the tax office during this period, it may be less than two days.

The table below contains possible options for preparing application No. P21001, as well as methods of paying the state fee for registering an individual entrepreneur with various options for submitting a package of documents to the registering authority.

Table: deadlines and options for registration of P21001, payment of state duty

Options for registering a business - quick and not so fast

Everyone chooses the best method for registering an individual entrepreneur, which corresponds to their life situation. Let's consider 7 options for providing a standard package of documents for registering a micro-business, as well as nuances and details that should be taken into account. Let us clarify which methods of transferring documentation are the fastest, and which are acceptable only for those who are not in a hurry.

So, let’s summarize how a person who decides to organize his own business can register with the state.

The fastest ways to register a private business are given above; the registration deadlines in these cases will be:

• No. 1 - a partial remote method of registering an individual entrepreneur from the website of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation - will take from two to three working days. In this option, you will only need to make one visit to the tax office, and you can make an appointment in advance so as not to sit in line (although tax authorities now claim that the average wait time is 15 minutes, they have periods of heavy load that can influence the increase in time).
• No. 2 - completely remote method using an electronic signature - from one to three days. Here you need, first of all, UKEP, as well as additional software.

The following 2 easiest ways to register are to personally go to the registration authority, this could be:

• any multifunctional center (since 2018 this can be done even in another city);

• or the tax office at the place of permanent or temporary residence.

In this case, the application is printed out on paper, accompanied by copies of the passport pages and a payment receipt with state duty (optional). You must have a document proving your identity and registration with you so that the employee can compare the copies and the original.

What can speed up the registration process is that when submitting documents through the multifunctional center:

• you can pre-register (by phone or on the website) for a certain time and not wait in line;
• pay the state fee directly to the MFC.

With these methods of providing documentation, it will take an average of 4 working days for the applicant to register as an individual entrepreneur. If you hurry up and submit the documents in the morning, you can hope that the documents will be ready by the end of the third day, but this is unlikely (especially through the MFC).

When a businessman does not have the opportunity to submit the papers himself, he can entrust this matter to his legal representative. Any competent adult citizen of the Russian Federation can do this; it is an indispensable condition that he has a notarized power of attorney to perform actions on behalf of the individual entrepreneur. In this case, all pages of copies of documents, as well as the applicant’s personal visa, must be notarized. In this case, the total number of required visits increases to three: 2 visits of an authorized person to the registration authority and one joint visit of the applicant and his representative to the notary’s office.

In addition to 800 rubles for the state fee, the cost of registering an individual entrepreneur will increase (at a minimum) by the amount of notary services: for a power of attorney, as well as for examining copies of documents. If the services of a trusted person are paid, the costs will accordingly increase even more.

The sixth way to send documents to the Federal Tax Service is by Russian Post. In this option, the postal item must be registered with a notification and a description of the attachment. We recommend that you check the address of the required inspection in advance, check the link. As in the previous method, all documents and an application with the personal signature of the applicant (IP) must be certified by a notary. In addition to notary services, there are postage costs (albeit insignificant). And, obviously, this is the slowest way to obtain a certificate of registration of an individual entrepreneur and entry into the Unified State Register of Entrepreneurs. Delivery standard of Russian mail in one city: 1 day of departure, plus 2 working days of travel between post offices, plus 1 day for delivery to the address - at least 4 calendar days of delivery in one direction. And this is provided that there are no holidays during this period. Thus, the average time to obtain results for registering an individual entrepreneur using this option is at least 12 working days.

Please know: for residents of Moscow and the region, some express delivery operators have a service for delivering documents on registration with the Federal Tax Service. To speed up the process, you can contact such organizations.

Another way to register a business is to send documents via telecommunications through a notary using the electronic signature of an official. With this option, you will need to visit the notary’s office 1-2 times and pay (in addition to the fee) for the services of the executor. The registration period in this case is 3 working days. It should be noted that this is the least common method.

Please note: the method of receiving a successful registration package does not depend on how the documents were submitted. The entrepreneur has the right to choose the method at his own discretion: in person, with the help of a representative or by mail. The only limitation is when documents are submitted through the MFC. In this case, the result will be sent by the tax authorities to the “My Documents” center.

Table: methods of registering individual entrepreneurs - registration deadlines and number of visits

After passing the state registration of an individual entrepreneur, the tax service, within the framework of interdepartmental electronic document management, will independently and within the legally established time frame register the private company with all extra-budgetary funds, as well as with the territorial statistics body. There is no need to worry about this separately.

Video: explanations of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation when creating a business

Obviously, there are enough options for registering a business. They are different: some require a little more effort and time, some are a little more expensive than others, and there are those that allow you to do most of the work without leaving home. The choice is up to the entrepreneur.

To generate documents for individual entrepreneur registration, you can use the free online service directly on our website. With its help, you can prepare a package of documents that meets all the requirements for completion and legislation of the Russian Federation.

This step-by-step instruction describes in detail the procedure for state registration of individual entrepreneurs. With its help, you will get the most complete idea of ​​how to open an individual entrepreneur in 2019, save your time searching for the necessary information, and also learn about free online services that greatly simplify the process of registering an individual entrepreneur.

1. Select the method of individual entrepreneur registration

There are two ways to open an IP:

1. Self-registration of individual entrepreneurs. A fairly easy procedure, which consists of preparing a few simple documents. In addition, budding entrepreneurs will gain valuable experience interacting with tax officials.
2. Paid registration of individual entrepreneurs through a specialized company. Suitable for those who want to save their time and do not want to delve into the process of government registration of individual entrepreneurs on their own.

How much does it cost to open a sole proprietorship?

Register an individual entrepreneur yourself

Note: Some of the above expenses can be returned if you are registered with the employment center as unemployed.

Paid to open an individual entrepreneur through a specialized company

The cost of paid registration of an individual entrepreneur depends on the region, but usually ranges from 1,000 to 5,000 rubles. The state fee for registering an individual entrepreneur is not included in this amount. Services for making a seal and opening a current account may sometimes not be provided or may require an additional fee.

Comparison of self-registration and paid registration of individual entrepreneurs

2. We select OKVED activity codes

Before preparing documents, you need to select from the OKVED directory the codes of the types of activities that you are expected to engage in after registering an individual entrepreneur.

In practice, OKVED codes are usually chosen with a reserve. Even if you are not exactly sure whether you will engage in this activity or not, it should still be included in the list. According to them you won't have to additionally pay taxes and submit reports, since these factors directly depend only on the chosen taxation system. However, if necessary, you can always add OKVED codes after opening an individual entrepreneur.

Although the law does not establish any restrictions on the maximum number of OKVED codes, it is not recommended to indicate more than 57 of them in the application for registration of an individual entrepreneur (that much can be placed on one sheet). At the same time, you can only indicate OKVED codes consisting of at least 4 digits.

One of the selected codes must be selected as main. In fact, only the right to apply reduced rates when paying insurance premiums for employees depends on it (provided that the individual entrepreneur officially has employees and this type of activity will generate at least 70% of income).

note, you cannot conduct business without indicating the OKVED code, as it may be equated to illegal entrepreneurship.

Free consultation on individual entrepreneur registration

3. We prepare the necessary documents

Application for registration of individual entrepreneur

An application in form P21001 is the main document required for registration of an individual entrepreneur (download the form). Detailed instructions for filling out, as well as application samples for 2019, can be found on this page.

Be careful to sign the application at the stage of preparing documents no need. This will need to be done when submitting documents in the presence of a tax inspector (notary - if you register an individual entrepreneur through a representative).

Most often, individual entrepreneur registration is denied precisely because of errors made when filling out the application. To avoid finding yourself in a similar situation, we recommend filling out an application through specialized free services.

Receipt for payment of state duty

In 2019, the state fee for registering individual entrepreneurs, as in 2018, is 800 rubles. You can generate a receipt, as well as pay for it online, using this service on the official website of the Federal Tax Service. There you can print it out in paper form and pay at any convenient Sberbank branch.

Keep your receipt confirming payment. You will need it when checking documents at the tax office. In general, you are not obliged to keep it, but not all inspectors of the Federal Tax Service know about this, so it is better in such a situation to play it safe and take the receipt with you.

Application for transition to simplified tax system

It is very important to choose the correct taxation system, since the amount of taxes paid and the number of reports submitted will depend on it.

Most beginning entrepreneurs are recommended to use the simplified taxation system (STS), since it can be used to engage in almost all types of activities, and it is the easiest to understand and profitable to use.

5. Submit documents to the tax office

The collected documents must be submitted to the registering Federal Tax Service at the place of residence of the individual entrepreneur or at the temporary registration address if the entrepreneur does not have permanent registration. You can find out the address and contact information of your tax office using this service.

If a future individual entrepreneur submits papers personally, he needs:

1. Submit a set of documents to the Federal Tax Service officer.
2. In the presence of an employee, sign the application for registration of individual entrepreneurs.
3. Receive a receipt confirming the delivery of documents (with a signature, seal and the date when you need to come for the completed documents of the individual entrepreneur).
4. Take one copy of the notice of transition to the simplified tax system with the date, signature and seal of an employee of the Federal Tax Service (it may be required to confirm your transition to the simplified tax system).

For filing papers through a representative or sending by mail it is necessary to certify and submit an application in form P21001 and a copy of all pages of the passport from a notary. Additionally, the representative must make a notarized power of attorney. When sending documents by mail, they must be sent by a valuable letter with a list of the contents and a notification to the address of the Federal Tax Service.

6. We receive documents of a registered individual entrepreneur

On the date indicated by the inspector, you need to come to the tax office yourself to get ready-made documents (in 2019, the period for registering an individual entrepreneur should not exceed 3 working days). You must have your passport and receipt with you. The representative will additionally need a power of attorney.

Note: if you cannot come to pick up the documents on the specified day, they will be sent by mail.

If registration is successful, the inspector must issue you:

1. USRIP record sheet (with OGRNIP number).
2. TIN certificate (if you didn’t have a TIN before).

Some Federal Tax Service Inspectors may additionally immediately issue:

• Notification of registration with the Pension Fund (PFR);
• Notification of assignment of statistics codes (from Rosstat).

Necessarily check the information in the received documents. If you find errors, immediately contact the employee who gave you the papers to draw up a protocol of disagreements. If errors were made due to the fault of the registering tax office, they must correct them promptly and free of charge.

note, from January 1, 2017, the Federal Tax Service stopped issuing a certificate of registration of individual entrepreneurs in paper form. Instead, the tax office now issues a Unified State Register of Entrepreneurs (USRIP) entry sheet in form No. P60009, which has the same legal force as the previously issued state registration certificate.

Note: if you plan to officially hire employees, then you no longer need to register with the Pension Fund as an employer. From January 1, 2017, the application procedure for registration has been canceled for individual entrepreneurs. Registration and deregistration with the Pension Fund of Russia can be carried out on the basis of information contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs and the Unified State Register of Entrepreneurs and it is not at all necessary to submit additional documents (letter dated January 31, 2017 No. BS-4-11/1628@).

To register with the Social Insurance Fund, an individual entrepreneur must submit an application for registration as an employer no later than 30 calendar days from the date of hiring the first employee.

Having received the right to conduct business activities after state registration. Illegal entrepreneurship entails.

Registration of an individual entrepreneur is a simple process; you can go through it yourself or turn to professional registrars for help. Our step-by-step instructions for registering an individual entrepreneur for beginners in 2019 will show you how to open an individual entrepreneur for free and quickly.

Step 1. Select the method of individual entrepreneur registration

Registration of an individual entrepreneur takes place at the tax office at the address of the place of residence (registration in the passport), and in its absence, the individual entrepreneur is opened at the address of temporary registration. If you do not have the opportunity to contact the tax office at your place of registration, you can use. For users located in Moscow, this service is available on a turnkey basis and is provided in three working days (the digital signature is already included in the price, after clicking on the button, select “register an individual entrepreneur”):

So that you can decide whether you will prepare the documents yourself or prefer “turnkey registration”, we will compare Table of pros and cons of both options:

Step 2. Select activity codes according to OKVED

Before filling out an application to open an individual entrepreneur, decide what kind of business you will start. Business activity codes are selected from a special classifier, use ours for this. If you use to prepare documents, you will be offered a drop-down list, which will make your work on selecting codes even more convenient.

On one sheet A of the application, you can indicate 57 activity codes, and if one sheet is not enough, then you are allowed to fill out additional ones. Only those OKVED codes that contain 4 or more digits are indicated. Select one code as the main one (the type of activity for which the main income is expected to be received), the rest will be additional. You are not required to operate using all of the specified codes, but we recommend registering only those codes that you plan to work on. Later, if you change the direction of your business, you can add them.

Step 3. Fill out the application form P21001

You must submit an application to switch to the simplified tax system within 30 days after opening an individual entrepreneur, but you can do this when submitting documents for registration.If you decide to register an individual entrepreneur using our service, the program will prepare an application for you to switch to a simplified system.

Step 6. Collect a package of documents and submit it to the registration authority

Check that to open an individual entrepreneur you must have the following documents prepared:

• application for registration of individual entrepreneurs in form P21001 - 1 copy;
• receipt of payment of state duty - 1 copy;
• copy of the main identification document - 1 copy;
• notification of transition to the simplified tax system - 2 copies (but some Federal Tax Service Inspectors require 3 copies);
• power of attorney, if documents are submitted by an authorized person.

If the method of submitting documents is through a proxy or by mail, then application P21001 and a copy of the passport must be notarized .

To open an individual entrepreneur, you will additionally need the following documents:

• copy of the temporary residence permit or permanent residence document - 1 copy;
• notarized translation of a foreign passport - 1 copy.

You can find out the address of the tax office where individual entrepreneur registration takes place at your place of residence or stay through the Federal Tax Service service . When submitting documents, you will receive a receipt from the registration authority confirming acceptance of the application to create an individual entrepreneur.

Step 7. After registering an individual entrepreneur

In 2019, no more than 3 working days after submitting documents. In case of successful registration, the Federal Tax Service sends to the applicant's e-mail in electronic form a record sheet of the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs in form No. P60009 and a certificate of registration with the tax authority (TIN), if it has not been received earlier. You can receive paper documents only upon request of the applicant to the Federal Tax Service or the MFC.

Congratulations, you are now an individual entrepreneur! We hope that our step-by-step instructions for registering an individual entrepreneur in 2019 helped you!

What to do if you have been refused registration as an individual entrepreneur or LLC? From October 1, 2018, the applicant can again submit documents for registration of an individual entrepreneur or LLC. You must contact the Federal Tax Service within three months after the decision to refuse is made, and this can only be done once.

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The calculator will select the most advantageous bank offer for settlement and cash services for your business. Enter the volume of transactions you plan to make per month, and the calculator will show the tariffs of banks with suitable conditions.