The problem of legal self-employment status of citizens
Object. The article deals with institution of self-employed citizens in the Russian Federation. The matter of the obvious relevance did not find durable legislatively fixation at this time. The authors analyze the essence of self-employment, the approaches about determination of category ''self-employed citizens'' in the Russian and international law and regulations of the current legislation. As a result the authors found a number of the gaps, contradictions and problems demanding timely normative and legal permission. Determination of the status of self-employed citizens is important, first of all, from the point of view of uniform practice of law enforcement of regulations of the current legislation. Methodology. The authors applies general scientific (dialectic, heuristic and method of systemic analysis) and specific methods of scientific cognition, such as comparative legal and formal-judicial. Results. The institute of self-employment in the Russian Federation has no proper normative legal regulation; it is possible to point out the total absence of the regulated legal status of this category of citizens. The legislator operates very actively, as well as the highest judicial authorities, with the concept of ''self-employed citizen''. Conclusion. The authors offer the solution of the called problem in form of legislative fixing of a concept of self-employed citizens, determination of the dispositive list of types of their activity and in fixing of legal status of such subjects in the civil legislation of Russia.