Source: QUALITY PORTAL - 08/07/2010

The list of activities is led by those derived from the retail trade of apparel and accessories, with 38.331 businesses, followed by hairdressers, who already number more than 29. The list of formalized entrepreneurs is filled with activities such as street vendors of food (7.254), electrical installation and maintenance services (7.014), tire repair services (about 2 thousand), key chains (about 2 thousand), among thousands of others , including cleaners and rubber tappers, who collect latex in the Amazon rainforest.
 

The legal figure of the Individual Entrepreneur is part of the General Law of Micro and Small Enterprises - Complementary Law 123/06, complemented by LC 128/08. The objective is to face the informality experienced by around 10 million micro-businesses in the country. The formula to attract this public is based on a strong reduction in costs and simplification of bureaucracy.
 
Sebrae Nacional contributed, together with business representatives, with proposals for the formulation of the new law and in the articulations for its approval, as it did with the General Law. With the legislation in force, the institution has been working, alongside partners, to encourage formalization. Among the actions are guidance at points of service, via the relationship center (0800-750-0800) and registration of entrepreneurs.
 
The evaluation by the technical director of Sebrae Nacional, Carlos Alberto dos Santos, is that the benefits created by the law are reversing “the trend of increasing informality in the country, accentuated in the 80s and 90s”. The forecast is that the formalizations, which started to take place in 2009, will continue strongly for the next three to five years, "because it is easy, cheap and advantageous".
 
According to Carlos Alberto, the facilities for formalization, together with information and guidance, will allow what is called “separating the chaff from the wheat”. This is because the tendency is for entrepreneurs who remain informal due to lack of information or opportunities to progressively formalize themselves, since there will be no more reasons for not doing so. Thus, basically, only those who engage in illegal activities or seek tax evasion will not be formalized. This will purify, improving the entire business environment in the country, he explains.
 
The entrepreneur with gross revenue of up to R $ 36 thousand per year can be formalized as EI, upon payment of a fixed monthly fee of 11% of INSS plus R $ 1,00 of ICMS (industry or commerce) or R $ 5,00, XNUMX of ISS (services). The EI guarantees Social Security coverage, differentiated credit and other formality benefits such as registration with the CNPJ and being able to issue invoices and facilitated credit. Registration is done on the internet, without cost or signature or delivery of documents to the Board of Trade.
 
Taken as the first Individual Entrepreneur in the Country, with registration made in the early hours of July 1, 2009, Adalberto Oliveira dos Santos, jewelry seller at Feira dos Importados in Brasília (DF), is part of the list of formalizations in retail and celebrates the results. “I have credit in the market, I expanded the stock, sales and profits by an average of 25%”.
 
Formalized as services and trade in ornamental plants, Arnaldo Alves, also from Brasília, explains that the possibility of having a CNPJ and issuing an invoice allowed to expand business. "Now I also attend companies, not to mention that I started to sell ornamental plants", he says.

Source: Agência Sebrae de Notícias