My new piece of news concerning education. Again. And again nothing positive. so... What's new in this sphere? Now all tutors must get a license to have a right to be a tutor. And of course, pay taxes! (not to lead shadow economy). So, all tutors will now be called "small businesses" (or something of the kind). And those ones who don't get the license will have to pay fees. The funniest thing about the very idea is HOW the government will know that somebody is a tutor that doesn't pay taxes. (I remember Pavlik Morozov as soon as I think about it.) So, everyone may write an anonymous police information against the tutor, and the supervisory pilot will come to school (if it is a school teacher) or even to the University. So, to my mind we're coming back to Soviet times! Has your teacher given you an unsatisfactory mark? Go to the police office and report he's an illegal tutor. And your teacher will be punished for all his faults! But that's not the reason for my being so outraged! Just WHY is it happening? Are our teachers (and we ourselves as well) so wealthy? Do they earn so much that their income must be somehow limited? It seems to me that the government deprives teachers of their last possibility to earn at least something!
To my mind it will lead to one thing - the increase of sums to be paid to tutors. If they have to pay taxes they will raise the cost of their service, just to be able to have some profit. Tutors won't disappear, probably there will be fewer of them. So who knows for whom it is worse - for tutors or for their "customers".
Yes, they do. They also earn money when tutoring, don't they? Then they have to pay taxes. But the problem is: even if you decide to pay taxes, you'll have to stop your tutoring activity, it will simply be unprofitable. Very unprofitable, by the way.
It is again aimed at confining Russian citizens. At the same time it's another source of money. Poor teachers have nothing to do but to pay taxes. Of course only if their activity is revealed. This is stupidity of the authorities - just to publish something that won't work in real life. This is psedodemocratic totalitarianism we deal with in Russian, and who would argue with me? By the way, do students working as tutors fit to this category?
Will take time-out! I am IRATE, foam at the mouth! The problem is not with legalizaing private tutoring, the problem is that the country is coming to a great abyss! I have set up my private business enterprise, and I can do it fine. But the new regulations require more paper and more documents to open up your individual teaching business. I am now supposed to apply for a renewal of the licence. The procedure now is more complicated that it was four years ago. The preparation work will take more that a week of non-stop work from morning till night. A lot of papers to sign. In addition you will have to pay a duty (about 6 000 rubles for the licence). Atfer that, any person who decides to do this business will have to learn accountancy and read legislation. Last, the government will get really big money that will disappear the same day it falls on their accounts.
