The Council Council proposed two options to solve the problem with the self -employed pension

The first option implies the introduction of fixed insurance premiums for self -employment, similar to the fact that individual entrepreneurs (IP) pay. If the income does not exceed 300 thousand rubles a year, the contribution to the pension and medical insurance (mandatory medical insurance) is 53.66 thousand rubles in 2025, 57.39 thousand rubles in 2026 and 61.15 thousand rubles in 2027. If the income is greater, 1% of the excessive quantity is added.

The second option implies adjusting the distribution of the Tax on Professional Income (NPD), in which part of the funds will go to future pensions. Now, 63% of the NPD enters the regional budget and 37% for the mandatory medical insurance fund.

In a letter, the senator said that in 2024 the number of self -employed exceeded 12 million people. This is a “significant segment of citizens” that “will live with a minimum pension, with the simultaneous increase in the subsequent load on the budgets,” warned the senator.

The representative of the Ministry of Finance told Vdomosti that the tax regime for NPD payers does not plan to change before the end of the experiment in 2028. He recalled that the self -employed can voluntarily join the pension insurance program. On February 5, the Senator of the WHO region Ivan Evstifeev at a meeting in the Council indicated that 12 million self -employed only 52 thousand make deductions of voluntary pensions.

In January, RB.RU, with reference to the data of the Federal Tax Service, wrote that according to the results of December 2024, the number of freelancers in Russia reached the historical maximum of almost 12.2 million people, while in December of 2023 There were 9.3 million revenues of them worked on their own in December 2024 amounted to 250.3 billion rubles, in December 2023 it was at the level of 186 billion rubles (an increase of 34%).