Source: Gazeta do Nortão - MT - 29/07/2009

Aiming at strengthening the local economy, the Municipality of Alta Floresta, through its Secretariat of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, has been entering into several partnerships with the public and private sectors. One of these partners, always present, has been SEBRAE, in order to clarify, train and technically subsidize new insertions in the job market of micro and small entrepreneurs.

The most recent action within this partnership with SEBRAE took place this week at the headquarters of CDL / ACIAF, when Elizabeth Ramos de Assunção, Manager of the SEBRAE Agency in Alta Floresta, addressed a group of people, including accountants, handicraft producers and possible future entrepreneurs, a very enlightening talk about the latest novelty in the formal market, the Individual Entrepreneur.

Created by Law 128/08, this new type of company within the formality eliminates bureaucracy, reduces operating costs, has zero cost at the Commercial Board and the Federal Revenue Service, is exempt from expenses with the accounting office and since the 1st of July can now be formalized and, most importantly, as Elizabeth Assunção pointed out: “In informality, besides the person being unprotected against accidents, they will also have difficulties both to buy and to sell”, not to mention countless other disadvantages.

To become an individual entrepreneur, that is, to open your company in this modality, what is required is only that it fits within the level of annual income of up to R $ 36.000,00, that you work alone or have, at most, one employee or helper.

Asunción cited as a reference the taxes that companies must pay, such as ICMS, ISS, FGTS, Salário Família, Férias, 13º Salário and others. In the case of the Individual Entrepreneur, the monthly cost for an employee today is R $ 465,00 minimum wage, R $ 37,20 (8% of FGTS) and R $ 13,95 (3% of INSS - 11% of the employee pays 8%), totaling R $ 516,15.

Conclusion: this is the shortest way to insert street vendors, street vendors, cosmetics salesperson, hairdresser, manicure, seamstresses, popcorn maker, beautician, artisan, jewelry maker, tire repairman, shoemaker, woodworker, hydraulic firefighter, computer technician, potter, painter , mechanic and other entrepreneurs in the formal market and they will have all the guarantees of the Law with the advantage of being free from the so-called “tax massacre”.

Interested parties should contact SEBRAE or the Secretariat of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of Alta Floresta that are guiding these future entrepreneurs.