Small Businessmen’s Heart Cry: I Need To Educate, Set On Feet My Three Children

The entrepreneurs already pay the state much more than they earn.

A letter from an individual entrepreneur arrived to the editor’s office of the perspektyva.org website. The letter reflects its author’s views with regard to the invoices issue.

The entrepreneur, the father of a large family, writes that even under current conditions, almost all small businessmen pay the state more than they earn:

“In Moscow, it’s hard to obtain paper invoices from entrepreneurs, let alone electronic ones.

Believe me, I know for sure that we all went through the exhausting attempts to find an entrepreneur with a good assortment of goods and a reasonable price so that they worked on invoices, there are very few of them, but they will not issue electronic invoices, that’s certain.

Big companies do not work with us, the small businessmen, by principle, they do not even talk to us. There is no such order which they speak about at the meetings of EURASEC. So our micro and small business, assuming such obligations, will be doomed.

I do not understand why and who needs this, because there are much more convenient alternative systems under which we will work calmly and the state will receive good taxes.

Most of our entrepreneurs, even under existing conditions, pay more than they earn.

The same situation is with chipping.

Yesterday I talked with my colleagues, the same businessmen, all unanimously say that this is the end for everyone.

Dear Sirs officials, we are asking you not to kill us.

I, for example, am the father of a large family with a disability, my wife is the last-year student at the Belarusian State University, the education there is expensive. And I have three children to educate and set to their feet, and believe me, I'm not the only one.”