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I’m quot­ing a note by an acquain­tance of mine who wished to remain anonymous. Just in case.

Instead of con­tri­bu­tions to the social funds, they came up with a promis­ing Single Social Contribution. You believed it’s single? How naive!

[He goes on: the “single” con­tri­bu­tion is still three pay­ments, one for the entre­pre­neur and two for each employee, due with every salary, which the Labor Code says must be paid at least twice a month; the yearly report on work­place acci­dents stays, and new ones arrive, with a reworked income-tax form or two; the law ties the con­tri­bu­tion to “the types of activ­ity listed in the reg­is­tra­tion cer­tifi­cate”, which lists none; you owe it on civil con­tracts too; the tax office may now inspect with­out warn­ing on a tip from any state or local body, “one call to a friend”; and from April 1 (funny, right?) a man who col­lected milk from vil­lagers for a dairy must keep full books or give up. He’d write it all up with quotes, he says, but he has to run off and file reports, fill in his ledger and pay taxes, being an entre­pre­neur on the sim­pli­fied system, after all.]

I can’t say I agree with him 100%, but free­dom of speech has to be supported…