Tax on Self-Employed Income in the Republic of Belarus

Abstract

The paper discusses tax on self-employed income in the Republic of Belarus. This state, together with the Russian Federation, forms a single Union State and is part of the most important supranational formation in the post-Soviet space: the Eurasian Economic Union. In this regard, the experience of legal regulation of self-employed taxation in the Republic of Belarus is important for the Russian theory of tax law, since it allows us to determine the vectors for further harmonization of the tax legislation of the EAEU member states, without which full-fledged economic integration is impossible. The conducted analysis of the current system of taxation of income received by self-employed in the Republic of Belarus allows us to state that it is more variable than the similar system in Russia. Moreover, in Belarus, both civil and tax legislation more clearly defines the status of self-employed citizens, and the state seeks to stimulate this type of activity. At the same time, the introduction from January 1, 2023 of a tax identical to the Russian tax on professional income allows us to conclude that Russia has chosen the right way to tax self-employed citizens through introduction of advanced digital technologies into this mechanism that provide information exchange with the tax authorities.