svetlana tsemerbulatova, alexander shedevr and andrey litvin, senate program.ovations that concern business. starting this year, the limit for the simplified taxation system has been changed. its use is legal if the income of entrepreneurs does not exceed 265,800 thousand rubles. in total, there are five special regimes in russia, including a tax on professional income, which is paid by the self-employed, and a unified agricultural tax. for business the main advantage of using such regimes is to reduce the tax burden, for the state to develop entrepreneurship, including in the production sector. we will learn more from senator pavel tarakanov. in general, if you look, out of 6 million subjects there are almost 6 million smes, 81% use special tax regimes, of which about 30% are legal entities and 70% are individual entrepreneurs, and this proportion is the same. quite stable over the past 3 years, unfortunately, sme production currently accounts for only 7% of of the total number of smes, and provide about 10% of turnover, which, by the way, is growing very well