How to get the status of a small enterprise

To recognize the enterprise as small, it is enough to comply with the statutory restrictions on the number of employees, annual revenue and the share of state or municipal participation. However, in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation there are special registers in which the enterprise or entrepreneur may be included. For example, in Moscow it is a register of small and medium-sized businesses. The presence of such in the regions should be clarified in the structures supporting entrepreneurship of a particular subject of the Russian Federation.

You will need

• - an application for entry in the registry, if necessary, with applications;

• - extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities or the USRIP;

• - statistics codes (for legal entities);

• - information on the average number of employees with a mark of the tax inspectorate for the previous year;

• - tax reporting or declaration of the company or entrepreneur for the past year with a tax mark;

• - extract from the register of shareholders (only for CJSC and OJSC);

• - power of attorney;

• - passport.

Instruction manual

1

Fill out the application for inclusion in the register. You can find it on the Internet on the websites of business support structures (in Moscow, a department for supporting small and medium-sized businesses or business support centers in administrative districts). If there are branches and representative offices, also fill out the corresponding annex to the application. To make a legal entity in the register, you also need to fill out applications for information about the founders and forms of financial statements.

2

Prepare a power of attorney for a representative who will submit documents to the one-window service of the small business support department. For companies, it is mandatory, entrepreneurs, if they submit documents themselves, can do without a power of attorney. Notarization is not required, the signature of the head or entrepreneur and the seal are sufficient.

3

Collect the package of necessary documents. Basically, this is the documentation that is already in the hands of the representatives of the company or the entrepreneur: - tax reports and information on the average number of employees with a tax mark; - statistics codes (only for companies); - extract from the register of shareholders (only for CJSC and OJSC) You will need to take the current extract from the USRIP or the USRLE, since its validity is limited. Most documents are provided in the original for verification and are returned to the applicant. In the service of one window, only a statement and a power of attorney remain.

4

Take the whole package of documents at the reception hours from the service of one window of the department for supporting small and medium enterprises in your district. Usually they are in the same room as the county center for entrepreneurship support. The exact addresses and opening hours can be found on the website of the department or the district central distribution center.

5

If the documents are in order, within the time specified by the service employee, you will receive a certificate of inclusion in the registry. You can track the certificate readiness stage on the website of the Central Distribution Center of your district.

note

The main benefit for small and medium-sized businesses is the possibility of applying a simplified tax system. However, to switch to it, it is not necessary to confirm the status of a small enterprise. It is enough to submit an application in the established form to the tax authority - optimally immediately when submitting documents for registration of a company or individual entrepreneur. The criteria for the possibility of using simplified systems are somewhat stricter than attribution to small enterprises.

Staying in the register of small and medium-sized businesses does not give any tangible benefits.