Source: FloripaNews, 03/06/2009

The electronic address (Portal do Empreendedor) will serve as a single gateway for the federal, state and municipal bodies involved in the process of implementing the Individual Entrepreneur.

The expectation is that the MEI (Individual Microentrepreneur), a recently created legal figure, will mark the beginning of the implementation of Redesim (National Network for the Simplification of Registration and Legalization of Companies and Businesses), which will integrate the operations of around 20 thousand bodies of the Union, states and municipalities.

The general coordinator of Federal Revenue Service Management, André Salvi, praised the integration of the various entities responsible for opening a company. "The main thing about this technological base is that there are three levels of government interacting with the citizen," he said. "Thus, it will be avoided all that via crucis to which the entrepreneur was submitted, having to go to various places to formalize his business", he added.

How the portal will work

Through the Entrepreneur Portal, whoever wants to start a company will obtain the registration with the CNPJ (National Register of Legal Entities) and the registrations with the Board of Trade and Social Security.

In this way, the entrepreneur will not need to go to the Board of Trade, the Health Surveillance, the City Hall, the Revenue and other agencies. All procedures will be done via the web. The forecast is that it will take a maximum of 30 minutes to obtain the documentation, according to information from Agência Sebrae.

Also on the portal, the self-employed person will have access to the information necessary to formalize his activity, will choose the Simples Nacional and will fill out the business application and statements that affirm that the foreseen rights will be acquired, as long as the entrepreneur fulfills his obligations.

After filling in the data, it will be necessary to print and sign the business application, copying, on the back of the document, the identity record. From that moment, there will be a period of 60 days for the interested party to forward this document to the Commercial Registry of his state.

See the formalization step-by-step:

The registration of the Individual Entrepreneur is free and will be done over the internet, at the Portal do Empreendedor. The process basically requires the following steps:

First, search for the business name, that is, the name that the entrepreneur wants to give to his enterprise. The system will inform if the name can be registered and, if not, it will give options for other names;

Once the name of the company is approved, the next step will be to fill in the registration form, in which the data of the entrepreneur and the business he is registering will be declared, a procedure that also involves the option for Simples Nacional. Once this is done, the entrepreneur automatically receives the registrations with the CNPJ, the Commercial Registry and the Social Security;

This procedure generates a document that must be printed, signed, attached to copies of RG and CPF and sent to the Commercial Registry within 60 days;

Once the enrollment is completed, the entrepreneur must request the issuance of the DAS (Simplified Collection Document), through which he will pay the single monthly tax. As this amount is fixed, he will be able to request the DAS for the entire year and pay month by month.

In case of doubt, the entrepreneur can count on guidance from the Sebrae relationship centers (on 0800-5700-800), the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (146) and the INSS (135), in addition to portals of other agencies involved.

Paradigm change

The secretary of Commerce and Services of the MDIC (Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade), Edson Lupatini, celebrated the arrival of Redesim and the Entrepreneur Portal. "We will have a faster process of opening and legalizing companies and without prejudice to security".

According to him, the model of opening companies entirely through the web brings a paradigm shift, with simpler and less costly processes.