MEI is helping several people who were previously self-employed or owners of small businesses, such as grocery stores, hairdressing salons, barbershops and other establishments. If that's your case, you need to know how to open a MEI.

Today we will teach you how to open a MEI, get out of informality and regularize your work situation. That way, you will guarantee pension benefits and much more. Know how!

The main objective of the MEI is to regularize the activities of self-employed workers and also those who own their own business.

In this sense, the first step to open a MEI is to make sure that your activity is listed as a category available to the federal revenue. 

Now you should have checked if you are within this parameter or not. Therefore, this is the time to understand how to open a MEI.

This process is very simple and you can do everything without even getting up from the couch at home, because everything happens online.

After all this process, the opening of your company is really over and your work is officially regular with the Federal Government.

In this way, other bodies begin to see you as a new legal entity in the labor market. You can also issue the Individual Microentrepreneur Condition Certificate (CCMEI).

This is the document that proves your entire status as a micro-entrepreneur, bringing the number of the National Register of Legal Entities (CNPJ) and registration with the Board of Trade.

First, opening the MEI is available to virtually everyone, with the exception of retirees and pensioners.

In addition, those who have professions regulated by bodies such as the Council of Medicine, Nursing, Psychology and others, cannot open the MEI to work in that same area. 

That is, a doctor cannot open a MEI to work with medicine, but he can open a MEI for a company operating in another branch, such as a distributor of food products.

In addition, you must meet the following requirements:

When entering the individual microentrepreneur regime, you are entitled to the following social security benefits:

In addition, even if they are not benefits that the law establishes, there are these other advantages of being a mei:

However, not everything is flowers and those who are MEI also have their obligations. According to Sebrae, the main body supported by microentrepreneurs, people in this category have the following obligations and responsibilities: