(1) Different investors. The investors of a sole proprietorship enterprise can only be natural persons; Individual industrial and commercial households can be established by a natural person or a family as a unit.
(2) The scope of the property to be responsible is different. Under normal circumstances, the investor of a sole proprietorship enterprise only bears unlimited liability for the debts of the enterprise with his personal property, and only when the enterprise is established and registered, it is clear that the family property is used as the personal contribution, and the family property is used according to law.
Unlimited liability for corporate debts; According to Article 29 of the General Principles of the Civil Law, the debts of individual industrial and commercial households shall be borne by personal property for individual businesses and family property for family businesses.
(3) The applicable law is different. Sole proprietorship enterprises shall be established in accordance with the Law on Sole proprietorship enterprises, and individual industrial and commercial households shall be established in accordance with the General Principles of the Civil Law and the Provisional Regulations on the Administration of Urban and Rural Individual Industrial and Commercial Households.
(4) Different legal status. A sole proprietorship enterprise is a business entity and a form of enterprise organization; Individual industrial and commercial households do not take the form of enterprises.
(5) The key to distinguish the two is whether the sole proprietorship enterprise has registered and obtained the business license.
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