“…Informal employment is becoming increasingly important both for the Russian economy and for foreign countries, within which the segment of self-employed people who choose to work for themselves is traditionally considered [1,2,3]. The task of the state is to ensure the institutionalisation of the activities of the self-employed, to prevent the spread of shadow employment, but on the contrary, to ensure the involvement of the self-employed in legal activities, while with minimal bureaucratic burden, which will enable self-employed entities to receive officially confirmed income, use support tools designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (hence -SMEs), and receive social guarantees, including pension provision [4,5,6]. At the same time, the problem of the "stowaway" is being solved; the state budget will receive taxes on the income of the self-employed.…”