How to legally issue a web service with the input and output of funds?

Question

Electronic commerce

Hello. It is necessary to legally register a web service in the Russian Federation with the input and output of funds. As examples - a freelance exchange, a crowdfunding site.
Those. the service accepts payments from some individuals and sends payments to other individuals.
How to implement this technically there are a lot of options, the question is how to do it legally so that tax payments do not turn out to be more than income. There are 3 main questions about this:
1. IP or LLC?
2. What system of taxation to choose?
3. From the point of view of tax legislation, is money held on any Webmoney, QIWI, Yandex-Money, Robokass, etc., considered? account turnover for the organization?
Thank you.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

1. To start an individual entrepreneur, it will be easier, because there you can not keep accounting records, only once a year a declaration + payment of taxes and contributions. 3. With the performers on your service, you conclude an agency agreement (offer on the site) under which you are an agent, for example, you sold something on the site or provided a service for 1000 rubles, the commission of your service is 20% = 200 rubles, 800 rubles were sent to the contractor. Then, under such an agreement, you write an income of 200 rubles in the tax return. TOTAL the easiest way to start an individual entrepreneur is 6% + agency agreement
For an LLC, it is necessary to enter bookkeeping + reporting much more than for an individual entrepreneur, but for such a service as you want - where there may be claims from buyers, fraud on cards, etc. - an LLC will protect you personally from these financial debts - it is important to do an LLC when there is already turnover.
2. to start the simplified tax system at 6%, it will be easier for you. If the amount of expenses is more than 60% of the amount of income and you can correctly document all expenses and you know which payments can be attributed to expenses, then the income-expense tax is 15%.
An important point you wrote is that you will have natural persons as performers, and you may have an obligation to withhold personal income tax from the income of performers (as a tax agent of these individuals). There are different answers on the Internet, it’s better for you to discuss this issue with a tax lawyer / accountant so that later there are no additional taxes