7 Annoying Mistakes in Working with Freelancers: Observations from Megaplan

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More and more often, employers hire individual entrepreneurs or self-employed people instead of full-time employees, and our company is no exception. If everything is more or less clear with individual entrepreneurs, then it is not so with the self-employed, since this format of employment has only been around for a few years. This article will be useful for companies that are just starting to work with freelancers and are unsure whether they are doing everything right.


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Most often, we hire freelancers for one-off tasks that full-time specialists cannot perform uganda whatsapp list for various reasons. Megaplan usually cooperates with individual entrepreneurs and the self-employed - we have almost no individuals left among freelancers. However, recently the number of individual entrepreneurs has also decreased.

It is not profitable for everyone to register as an individual entrepreneur, since entrepreneurs are required to pay fixed insurance premiums and submit reports to the tax office. And this means time, money and fines if something is done late or incorrectly. As a rule, if a freelancer has a small business that he does himself, then he works as a self-employed person, and if the business grows and assistants appear, then he opens an individual entrepreneur.

Each status has its own characteristics and limitations that need to be taken into account. Most often, customers make mistakes when drawing up contracts, which leads to problems with the tax and labor inspectorate and can end in court. We tell you about the most annoying mistakes in working with freelancers.

1. Don't specify who you're dealing with
Before concluding a contract and assigning tasks, we ask the contractor in what format he works: self-employed or an individual entrepreneur.

Why is the status of the performer so important?

Self-employed people are not allowed to engage in certain types of activities. For example:

resell other people's goods;
sell excisable goods and goods subject to mandatory labeling;
engage in the extraction and/or sale of minerals.
The full list of restrictions can be found here .

In addition, you cannot work with a specialist with self-employed status who:

worked for you under an employment contract less than two years ago;
performs the same job for a long time, sits in an office at a work computer and receives a fixed salary every month. This will most likely be considered concealment of employment relations.
asks to conclude an agency agreement, commission agreement or agency contract with him, since this contradicts the essence of self-employment.
The following needs to be checked with the individual entrepreneur:

code of the All-Russian Classifier of Types of Economic Activity (OKVED). It must, firstly, be included in the list of those permitted for individual entrepreneurs, and secondly, correspond to the services actually provided.