Self-employed is not a micro-enterprise.

Individual business belongs to the form of organization of natural persons, it is not a "business", so the two concepts are essentially different, do not think that the individual households are relatively small, so it is a "small and micro-enterprise". Small and micro-enterprise is a small business, micro-enterprise, family-owned enterprises, is proposed by economist Prof. Lang Xianping.

According to Article 2 of the Measures for the Registration Procedure of Individual Industrial and Commercial Households, citizens who have the ability to do business shall be registered by the administrative department for industry and commerce and shall receive an individual industrial and commercial business license to carry out business activities in accordance with the law.

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. p>The other differences between the two are these

One, the individual does not enjoy the national preferential policies, no investment risk and does not require accounting accounts, small and micro-enterprises receive a variety of national preferential policies to support, but also need to be required by the Companies Act bookkeeping and tax reporting;

Two, in terms of business, the individual can not do import and export business and storage of hazardous chemicals and so on, the small and micro-enterprises as long as Meet the appropriate conditions (pre-approval or post-approval or environmental requirements) is not a problem;

Three, the tax rate, self-employed can only apply for small-scale taxpayers (3%), micro-enterprises are also small-scale taxpayers at the beginning, but bigger, you can apply for general taxpayers. Microenterprises pay enterprise income tax and value-added tax, individual households pay personal income tax.

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