“Now we are working on the same voluntary opportunity for social insurance so that the self-employed can receive paid sick leave.
We have made our calculation, we are discussing it now with business, insurers, the Federal Tax Service, ”he said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
According to the minister, the innovation is financially balanced and acceptable to citizens in terms of monthly payments.
The presentation of the model is scheduled for September.
Kotyakov expressed the hope that already in 2023 the self-employed will have the opportunity to enter into compulsory social insurance on a voluntary basis.
Deputy Mayor for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations Vladimir Yefimov said earlier that the number of self-employed people in the capital had reached 1.05 million by July 1.
Moscow accounts for one fifth of all self-employed people in the country.