Legal Routes of Legitimation of Self-employed Citizens and Other Business Entities in the Context of the Public Services Digitization

Abstract

Purpose: an efficiency study of legal routes of legitimation of self-employed citizens and other business entities, applied in the context of the public services digitalization, identification of current legal problems in the examined area, and issuance of recommendations to overcome the same. Approach: dialectical, logical, statistical, technical, comparative legal, systemic and functional method of interpretation. Results: the performed study has shown that a clear assignment of the due legal routes of legitimation of the subject whose activities they were intended to legitimate is an important condition of its successful selection. It is justified that the notification procedure of legitimation requires alteration of the attitudes to the individual entrepreneurs’ activities legitimation procedure. It is established that application of digital technologies in the state registration area increases efficiency of performance of the registration authority’s functions as well as provides business entities with better access to the said procedure. Recommendations: in the course of defining the status of self-employed persons and legal routes of their legitimation, one may wish to consider the structure of self-employment; it is recommended to modify the mobile application, developed to legitimize self-employed persons, according to the needs of the individual entrepreneurs state registration; it seems essential to realize the legal entity “electronic address” concept in the Russian legislation; building up the training system for professionals in the area of business in the context of digital economy, one should pay attention to provision of “digital legal awareness” of self-employed citizens and other business entities, especially with regard to the stage of legitimation of their activities.