The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on tax for the self-employed

As noted on the website of the lower house of parliament, for the self-employed, the tax rate will be 4%.

“Residents of another 19 regions will be able to take advantage of the preferential tax regime in the event of the final adoption of the bill,” the report said.

Starting January 1, it is proposed to "expand the geography of the tax experiment" with the help of St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Voronezh, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Samara, Sakhalin, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk regions.

It is also proposed to include in the experiment the Krasnoyarsk and Perm Territories, the Nenets, Khanty-Mansiysk, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts and the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Earlier, the Ministry of Finance stated that they plan from July 1, 2020 to spread a special tax regime for the self-employed throughout the country.

As noted by the Federal Tax Service, in 2019, more than 280 thousand Russians registered as self-employed.