The Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of entrepreneurs in the Moscow Region Vladimir Golovnev held a meeting with the heads of public reception rooms in videoconference mode, where he discussed the specifics of considering appeals from citizens applying the special tax regime "Professional Income Tax".

The rapid increase in the number of "self-employed", both throughout the country and in the Moscow Region, dictates the need to develop a set of measures to support this category of persons.

Currently, according to federal legislation and the legislation of the Moscow Region, the Commissioner considers the appeals of business entities registered in the Moscow Region, or whose rights have been violated by state or municipal authorities operating in the Moscow region. The current legislation, at present, does not answer the question of whether the "self-employed" are proper applicants for the Commissioner. Does the Business Ombudsman have the right to protect their rights and legitimate interests.

- First of all, "self-employed" is a category related to to the tax legislation. In turn, citizens applying the "Professional Income Tax" can be both registered as individual entrepreneurs, and do not have such a status. The former, in any case, will be the proper applicant when contacting the Commissioner. In relation to the "self-employed" who are not individual entrepreneurs, the condition on the existence of an economic dispute with a public organization will apply. Any person who can be qualified as a "business entity" should be considered by all authorized persons for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs as a proper applicant, - summed up Vladimir Golovnev.