The number of self-employed persons under 18 years of age in 2023 was almost 150,000, an increase of one and a half over the 2022s. The most relevant summary of the Izvestians was provided to the FNL. Most young people work in services: waiters, couriers, and SMM and design. The positive trend is due to the desire of adolescents to be financially independent, and experts believe. Moreover, their employment is gradually out of the shadows. The involvement of young people is particularly relevant in the context of the labour market deficit. Whether such a trend is maintained in the " news " material.

How many minors in Russia are self-employed:
The number of young self-employed is increasing every year. In 2023, the number of employees under the age of 18 was 146,000 and reported to the FNL. Compared to the 2022, the number of such workers increased by 54 per cent and added to the service. In the past year, however, growth was even more impressive -- almost double -- written earlier by the News.

In general, over 3.6 trillion rubles of income have been registered by employees during the tax regime and the average cheque of 1,830 roubles has been divided into FNL. The total number of self-employed persons exceeded 10 million. The authorities had previously extended the tax regime to 2028.

Before the adoption of the self-employed bill (in 2019), young people had also been working for, but they had been acting informally, by nannies, nurses and rehearsers, the expert of the Economic Faculty of Tatiana Uskac noted. Now, among the popular spheres, online services on digital platforms, trade in labels, creative professions, design, SMM, content-marketing, rehearsal, added an expert.

The growing generation increasingly relies on its own strength, noted the founder of the IT platform for self-employed Yazans, the chairman of the IHO Tax Committee Pavel Zukov. Young people refuse to use gray schemes, it's a very good trend, he said.

In doing so, for many young people, education is more important than work. For example, there is an increase in enrolment in specialized secondary schools after the ninth grade: teenagers do not drop out of school for work, said Pavel Zukov.

Why is there a growing number of young self-employed people:
Young people wanted to be financially independent and to be able to deal with their own affairs, and it was virtually impossible to work formally without experience until 18 years, to tell Tatiana Ushkatz of RUDN. While the registration procedure as self-employed is accessible, conditions and costs of the service can be determined on their own, it added.

The increase in the number of workers increases competition in the labour market, according to the expert. The age group of 15 to 18 years fills vacancies, especially in the area of services, noted the Director of the career development centre of the President ' s Academy, Anna Evsyukou. Adolescents work mostly during the holidays.

♪ Since the growing generation is the most active users of modern digital technologies, in particular online services, they are easily registered as self-employed. Adolescents pay taxes, compensate for the lack of personnel, having a positive impact on the country ' s socio-economic development, the expert emphasized.

The increase in youth employment is also due to jobs that do not require a high degree of skill (couriers, waiters, service staff, agriculture) and is considered by the Professor of Psychology and Human Development of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communication of the University of Finance under the Government of the Russian Federation, Alexander Safonov. Another reason is the need for families to compensate for high consumer inflation, he said.

In doing so, the employer would benefit from hiring self-employed, adding the expert. The latter themselves pay a tax at 4 per cent rates, each from the physical, 6 per cent from the payment of the law and the IP. Ex-staff workers (whether a fixed-term contract has been or is indefinite) cannot be cooperated in self-employment, at least two years from the moment of separation.

Will the trend to increase the number of self-employed persons to 18 years continue
Izvestya sent a request to Mindru and Minek on the impact of the increase in self-employment on the labour market and economy. The development of digitalization processes will further increase the number of self-employed, and I am sure Tatiana Uskaz of RUD.

♪ This is an opportunity to obtain not only additional funds but also practical experience. However, in order to protect the rights and safety of working adolescents, certain conditions must be created, and educational platforms must be developed.

The trend of young people ' s involvement in the economy will continue, with the conviction of Anna Evsyukova of the Presidential Academy. However, the number of juvenile self-employed will no longer be as fast as possible, both because of the higher base and for demographic reasons.

Adolescents are a large labour force reserve, especially now, in the face of labour shortages, when unemployment is at a record low level, the board of the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Human Resources Management, G. V. Plejanova Ludmila Ivanov-Schwitz, has announced. Intensification of self-employment among young people, she said, was just beginning, and their numbers could grow, which was very important for the economy.

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