In Moscow, the number of self-employed has increased 2.5 times over the year

“Last year, the number of self-employed people in the capital increased 2.5 times.

As of January 1, 2021, there were 479 thousand of them.

30% of the total number of self-employed in Russia is registered in the city, ”the message says.

According to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations, Vladimir Efimov, about 24 thousand residents of the city are registered as self-employed every month.

As Izvestia reports with reference to the data of YuKassa, the revenue of citizens working for themselves from the sale of goods and services on the Internet increased last year by almost 11 times.

In addition, the number of online transactions has increased almost 10 times.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Labor of Russia, Anton Kotyakov, said that 3.7 million Russians continue to work remotely.