Boris Titov The Ministry of Finance did not support the proposal of the business Ombudsman Boris Titov to give self-employed citizens with the status of an individual entrepreneur (IP), reports TASS. The idea Titov, the government has proposed to study Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. According to the Deputy head of the Ministry of Finance Ilia Trunina, change of status will only add to the Russians problems, and doesn’t contribute to their exit from shadow economy: “I don’t know why the Ministry of economic development and Titov do not like the self-employed. Individual entrepreneur is more of a status than self-employed. This is a set of responsibilities, it is necessary to pay insurance premiums in a fixed size, there are a number of limitations and so forth.” Trunin noted that the Finance Ministry proposes to create for the self-employed individual rules, which will give them preferential status. According to officials, many
