If you decide to open your own individual enterprise (IE) on your own, then registration will cost you a certain amount of money and will take about a week in time. You will need to register with the local branch of the state employment fund so that all expenses (up to 58,000 rubles) are reimbursed to you. To register an individual entrepreneur, you do not need an authorized capital and a legal address, you will be responsible for your obligations with the existing property.
Select the tax regime to be used even before you start the registration procedure for an individual entrepreneur and register with the employment fund. If you have not yet received a certificate of TIN assignment, then you need to do this and get it in your hands. You can issue it at the same time, passing registration, but in this case, the processing time will increase. If you have chosen the last option, then in all documents the "INN" field should be left blank.
Decide on the types of activities that your company will conduct. Basically, the more you specify them initially, the better. Subsequently, you will have to pay extra for obtaining additional codes. In the list of codes, first put down the one that will correspond to the main type of activity. The specified types of activities will have to correspond to those that you will indicate in the concluded contracts for the performance of work. The deductions to the FIU depend on the main type of activity specified by you. By specifying a preferential type of activity, you can reduce contributions to it from 26 to 18%.
Fill out the application form to the IFTS for registration of an individual entrepreneur. This can be done on a computer, or by hand. If the form is filled out on a computer, no changes or additions by hand can be made to it. Number, lace up the statement, putting an appropriate inscription about it, certify it with your signature. Check with the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate if your signature should be certified by a notary.
Pay the state fee for registering an individual entrepreneur, in 2011 it was equal to 800 rubles. Check the details for the transfer with the tax office at the place of registration.
When registering, you can immediately choose a simplified form of taxation. If you do not do this, then you will be able to switch to it no earlier than in 3 months. Attach a statement on the transition to a simplified form of taxation in 2 copies.
You can take the documents to the Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service on your own, transfer them with a trusted person, or send them by mail. In this case, you can also receive them by mail. Do not forget, when sending them, make an inventory of the attachments and register the parcel by registered mail.
Submit to the tax office an application for registration of an individual entrepreneur, a copy of the certificate of receipt of a TIN certified by a notary, a copy of a passport with a registration sheet, a document confirming the payment of state fees, an application for the application of a simplified taxation system (if necessary).
