Informality: The other side of the coin

We understand the disadvantages that informality has generated for our sustainable development objectives and that despite preventing our country and its trade from being treated seriously due to commitment, or lack thereof, it has managed to promote the "entrepreneurial" development of our citizens, considering innovative aspects that are used to achieve their purpose whatever path they must take. But then, will the perspective from which we see informality be ideal? Therefore, wanting to answer this question, we rely on the intellectual structure of the economic field, which has allowed the sub-area of ​​informality and the Sustainable Development Goals to be understood through articles mainly related to urban informality and cities. (Economic Policy and Analysis, 1970)

To begin to answer this question, we must consider that informality allows us to analyze two paths: one that ensures that our perception of the facts is based on social, labor, and urban informality, and another that emphasizes the conceptual structure from a unilateral perspective with groups focused on informality and sustainable development. In addition, we have a second way, from the multilateral point of view, the informal economy, informality, entrepreneurship, tax evasion, tax morale, tax compliance, the black economy, the informal sector, and corruption, are all groupings in informality. (Economic Policy and Analysis, 1970)

Peruvians are ingenious and persevering, characteristics that small entrepreneurs and merchants have brought to light with the pandemic, now more than ever we understand that it is time to modernize, adapt and strive to get ahead. Given this, many Peruvians decided to move their businesses to the digital world, start attracting customers, advertising their products, and collecting and paying through the Internet. But this new modernity not only brought facilities to connect customers and merchants but also multiple problems related to the lack of control over transactions carried out through the Internet. If before the regulatory institutions of trade in Peru found it difficult to maintain a record and control over informal trade, now the magnitude of commercial activity that they need to regulate is much bigger. We have found that one of the main reasons why entrepreneurs do not want to obtain an RUC is the lack of information and the fear of exaggerated taxes, many have the mistaken idea that registering with Sunat requires expensive procedures or extensive travel to reach their offices, and do not have the financial means. The reality is that obtaining an RUC is free and can be obtained easily through the internet.