Legal registration of freelancer activity

Everyone determines for himself how exactly his activity will be formalized from a legal point of view, but it is important to understand a few points:

  • You are required by law to pay taxes on any freelancing income;
  • The greater your turnover, the more likely you are to face claims from regulatory authorities;
  • Signing up as an individual entrepreneur or LLC will help increase credibility and get those clients that are not achievable for “gray” freelancers.

The main reason for registering freelancers is a guarantee of security and personal peace of mind. When you have a stable business, you get a high income and do what you love, of course, you want to keep the fruits of your labor and legalize.

How to pay taxes?

Several options:

  • Not paying at all is an administrative offense that can be regarded in different ways, it all depends on the conditions and characteristics of the activity. For example, your work may be regarded as illegal business, or concealment of income, or may be recognized as tax evasion on an especially large scale. The last option is 3 years in prison, or forced labor, or a fine. The main thing to warn you about is that non-payment with a turnover of 5,000,000 rubles or more is considered especially large, which is quite an achievable amount for a small team of freelancers in a year.
  • Pay tax on income from individuals (13% for residents of the Russian Federation) – declarations are submitted before April 30, 2017, and must exactly correspond to the income received. Important! Personal income tax is applied for non-systemic activities, that is, if the regulatory authorities regard your earnings as systemic (and it essentially is), you may be recognized as an offender due to tax evasion, with all the ensuing consequences.
  • Opening an LLC is an option for large freelancers or teams. It is more difficult to maintain, the costs of maintaining an LLC will be much higher than when registering an individual entrepreneur, however, you will be able to reduce risks only to the size of the authorized capital, and you will also be able to conduct foreign economic activity (if it is prescribed in the types of activities);
  • IP is the most common and simplest option for legalizing income. However, there are a few points: you risk all your property (including real estate, personal belongings), you cannot use a personal account for doing business, it is important to carefully select classifiers for future work. Sole Proprietorship is not the best option if you plan to cooperate with clients who pay VAT invoices.

IP is much easier and faster to issue, it is cheap in terms of reporting and does not require special skills. For individual entrepreneurs, preferential taxation systems have also been introduced as a stimulus, which are selected based on your turnover, type of activity and features of cooperation with the client. For example, you can choose to tax 6% on all income, or a 15% rate on profits minus all expenses. Consult with a lawyer or accountant to determine the most effective tax base for you.

How is reporting done and submitted?

As always, several options:

  • You do the reporting yourself;
  • You have an accountant who deals with reporting;
  • You are hiring an outsourcing company.

For individual entrepreneurs, a book of income or expenses is kept, as well as a declaration. When the work is handed over, acts are drawn up, or if you have a payment document from the client in your hands, this is considered the completion of the transaction, you do not need to draw up anything. Contracts that are concluded directly with the client, as well as offers on websites, in forms, and so on, are considered primary documentation. At the same time, a “wet” signature or seal of the client is not needed, since the fact of transferring funds on information resources is already recognized as consent.

With an LLC, everything is a little more complicated, since this is already a full-fledged commercial activity that requires appropriate documentation. Here it will no longer be possible to accept money from electronic payment systems, therefore, it will be necessary to issue invoices and transfer money to the settlement account of a legal entity. As soon as this fact happens, you fix the deal, which means you must account for each ruble received.

A very popular way of reporting among freelancers is the involvement of third-party auditors. You register on the site, enter data about your registered activity, and add transactions through your personal account. The service itself will prepare, generate and submit reports to the tax office strictly within the calendar framework and in the form. Payment is made for 1 tax period, depending on the turnover, type of legal entity, number of employees. On average, this amount varies from 5 to 20 thousand rubles for individual entrepreneurs, and up to 50,000 rubles for LLC. Given that you get ready-made reports, do not need to hire an accountant and do not waste time queuing at the MFC, this is a very good option.

Sometimes, freelance exchanges provide the opportunity to immediately pay taxes upon completion of transactions. These may be official transactions with a legal entity (with VAT), or there may be personal income tax payments.

When, after many sleepless nights, the diploma is finally ready, I want to pass it and forget it. But the university will not lag behind the student so easily. After all, the full text of the diploma was read only by the supervisor, and a whole commission will gather to evaluate it. Therefore, in many respects, his assessment depends on how the student defends his diploma.

So what is a successful defense?

  • Competent protection text
  • positive diploma review
  • confident answers to commission questions

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our specialists will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our specialists will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our specialists will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

Speech structure

Of course, what exactly to say in the defense depends mainly on the topic of the thesis and on what exactly is written in it, but there are general recommendations that are suitable for everyone.

  • First of all, we need to greet the members of the evaluation committee. (“Dear members of the attestation commission! Your attention is presented to the final qualifying work on the topic …”)
  • Introductory part. Here you need to reveal the topic and identify the issues that are raised in the work.
  • Relevance of the topic. At this stage, it is important to prove the relevance of the chosen topic and the degree of its development in other people’s works. Indicate the subject, object, objectives and purpose of the study.
  • Theme disclosure structure. Here you just need to list the paragraphs that are in the work and briefly describe them.
  • Problem statement. To confirm the relevance of the topic, it is necessary to state the problem and indicate the debatable opinions on this matter.
  • Conclusions. At the end of the speech, the commission should hear the conclusions that the student came to in the course of writing the diploma, in which there are ways and methods for solving the stated problems.

On the one hand, it seems that it is much easier to write a graduation speech than the diploma itself. However, high-quality speech is a skillful squeeze out of the work, as well as its competent presentation. And it often happens that a diploma is written with the highest score, and a student gets a worse grade. Therefore, if there is a lack of self-confidence, you can order a speech on our website. And then the probability of failure due to bad speech will disappear. After all, we give a twenty-day guarantee for the work, and if something does not suit you, you can demand that the author finalize the order for free. We make sure that students are satisfied, so if the final version of the work does not meet the stated requirements, you will get your money back.

Formal requirements

When writing a speech for a thesis, you must also take into account that there are purely formal requirements.

  • Time. Do not forget that there are many students, but only one commission. Therefore, the time for a defensive speech is regulated and ranges from 5 to 7 minutes. At the same time, you should remember about the time that will be spent on commission questions.
  • Intonation. Where, no matter how on the defense of a diploma, is it important to win over listeners? Therefore, it is better not to read the speech monotonously, making accents with intonation.
  • Style. When presenting a speech, it should be remembered that the main goal is understanding on the part of the commission. Therefore, you should not be too smart, but you can’t switch to colloquial speech either. In this matter, you need to observe the golden mean.
  • Pronouns. As in the diploma itself, it is important to remember during the defense that although the author of the diploma is clearly spelled out, there are a lot of true owners of knowledge reflected in the work (the authors of all the sources the student relied on plus the supervisor), so first-person pronouns are not appropriate here.
  • Questions. After the end of the speech, questions from the commission will inevitably follow, and you need to be ready for them. Suggested questions should be written down in the course of writing the thesis, work through all the questions that arose during the pre-defense, and you can also look at the questions at the end of chapters from textbooks on this topic.
  • Pre-protection. In such a matter as defending a diploma, it is better not to be presumptuous and neglect pre-defense. On it, you can practice giving a speech and write down possible questions from the audience. This will allow you to feel more confident in the official defense.

Of course, these are only recommendations, and no one forces you to strictly follow them. However, the rejection of some positions during the defense will create additional questions from the certification committee, which is not always loyal. Therefore, it is best to think through all possible questions and answer them in advance in a defensive speech. Then the teachers will have a minimum of questions, and they will be grateful for the saved time.