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How to open a MEI: know the complete step by step
See how to open a MEI, it's simpler than you might think to regularize your business.
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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!
How to open a MEI?
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.
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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.
Step by step below on how to open a MEI
- Enter the Entrepreneur's Portal, website of the gov.br platform
- Click on “I want to be MEI” and after that on the option “Formalize”
- Você deve criar uma conta no sistema “gov.br” ou, se já tiver uma, realizar o login com o seu CPF e senha;
- After that, it is necessary to provide personal information such as Identity Card number, CPF, Income Tax declaration number, home address and contact telephone number;
- Then, you will have to choose what your activities will be, the trade name of your company and inform the place where you will work, for example, from home, via the internet, at a business address, among other things;
- At the end, check that all the data you provided are correct, fill in the statements that the government requests and finalize your registration.
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.
Who can open a MEI?
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:
- Have a maximum revenue of R$81 thousand per year, that is, R$6,750 per month;
- Not having a partner or being a holder, or administrator of another company. Then that must be your only business;
- Hire a maximum of one employee;
- Exercise one of the activities available for the MEI;
- Be over 18 years old
- Being a native Brazilian or a foreigner with a permanent visa
MEI benefits and obligations
When entering the individual microentrepreneur regime, you are entitled to the following social security benefits:
- old-age or disability retirement;
- sickness benefit;
- maternity pay;
- death benefit for family members.
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In addition, even if they are not benefits that the law establishes, there are these other advantages of being a mei:
- Practicality to open a company;
- You do not need to have a permit and license;
- Exemption from various taxes and ease for the legalized company;
- More credit opportunity;
- The billing statement is simple;
- Support from Sebrae;
- Issuance of invoice;
- Possibility of opening a PJ account (legal entity).
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:
- Payment of the DAS-MEI guide
- Issuance of invoice
- Monthly revenue report
- Make the annual declaration (DASN-SIMEI)
- Completing and Administering Payroll Information (Registered Employee)
- Search training courses
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