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ERENET Profile Vol. IV, No. 4. www.erenet.org Pay-chains breakdown - about 39% of Russian SME’s face difficulties with financial counteracting with stakeholders. The Federal Government provides administrative and financial support to the SMEs. Firstly, beginning from July 2009 the registration of a small business is made simple. A businessman only has to inform the government that he or she is staring a new business without getting all sorts of permissions. Secondly, administrative control of SME’s activity in Russia is done once in 3 years. Nonsystematic governmental control of SME’s is done only with permission of the prosecutor. Also, the minimum quote of SME’s goods and services in public purchases is 20%. This measure provides SMEs with extra EURO 20 bn. public purchases. Russian regional governments are given the right to reduce the income tax from 15% to 5%. The federal government introduced special real estate funds for SMEs. These funds provide SME’s with discount and long-term rental rates. This is about administrative support. The measures of financial support provided by the federal government to SME’s are the following: 1. Funds are provided for regional governments annual since 2005 year 2. Discounted financing ratio 1 to 4. This means that for 1 EURO from the regional budget 4 Euros from the federal budget are subsidised 3. Priority subsidizing to crisis-suffered regions 4. SMEs loans refinancing by “Vnesheconombank” – EURO 660 bn. Government also realize some special measures of support for the youth entrepreneurship and startups: grants for start-ups, education programs for start-ups and youth entrepreneurship, business incubators for start-ups and youth entrepreneurship support measures. Grants for Start-ups are given to just registered small entrepreneurships working for less than 1 year, on a gratuitous and irrevocable basis at a rate of EURO 7,000 for one support addressee, on the terms of participation financing of target expenses on registration of firm, the expenses connected with the beginning of enterprise activity, and after passage by the applicant of short-term training and in the presence of the business project. Priority group of addressees of support – the unemployed, youth, invalids. Education programs for start-ups and youth entrepreneurship includes granting of certificates for a businessman to choose educational institution and a training direction, granting of grants for indemnification of the expenses connected with payment of training within the limits of the Presidential program of preparation of administrative shots, granting of educational services to young men on the basis of higher educational institutions for the purpose of stimulation of creation by young men of new small enterprises - Schools of youth business. Business incubators for start-ups provide such services as the working places for beginning entrepreneurs (for the time period not exceeding three years) beneficial terms on attractive terms (in the first year of rent – 40% from the rent rate, the second year – 60%, the third year – 90-100%); free educational service in complex; such consulting service as consulting in taxation, book keeping, crediting, a legal protection and development of the enterprise, business planning, improvement of professional skills and training; access to information databases. Now in Russia are created 112 business incubators, from them 59 already operate; as a whole it is 140 thousand sq. meters of the equipped areas on which it is possible to place 7,700 workplaces. The Youth Entrepreneur is person aged till 30 years, legal bodies, heads and proprietors aged till 30 years. The main youth entrepreneurship support measures are popularization of business among youths, the organization of television programs (competitions, talk shows, and author’s programs), publications in newspapers and magazines on the subjects of youth business, creation and support of information portals in the Internet, programs of training for students in business environment, support of summer business schools for youth, the organization and carrying out of exhibitions of youth projects, selection and financing of the most perspective business projects. 20
ERENET Profile Vol. IV, No. 4. www.erenet.org For supporting SMEs has been adopted a special “Anti-crisis SME Support Package”. The overall government spending on “Anti-crisis SME Support Package” comprises EURO 300 million. And there are 4 ways of its spending: GRANTS FOR START-UPS INTEREST RATE SUBSIDISING 300 mln. Euro MICRO FINANCING DEVELOPMENT SME LOANS GUARANTEE FUNDS • Grants for start-up enterprises. Grants are provided on a give-away basis. This year there are plan to distribute over 15 thousand grants to SME’s. • Micro financing development, which concerns developing noncommercial financial institutes that will further provide SME’s with short-term loans up to EURO 25,000. • Regional guarantee funds developing program. Providing banks with guarantee of loan return in case of lack of assets form SME. • Subsidizing SMEs interest rates in loans payments. This is our main short-term measure. It helps to stabilize business activity in case of interest rate growth. And in conclusion, the table 1, which describes the main goals of the SME Support Program managed by the Federal Government. Table 1 In Short-term Perspective In Middle and Long-term Perspective Saving the existing workplaces Contribution of SME’s to GDP (Gross Domestic provided by SMEs Product) – 40% 500 thousand new workplaces People working on SME’s – 50% created by SMEs of the overall economic workforce Founding start-ups 90% of all the enterprises – SME’s The left column describes short-term goals: saving the existing workplaces at SMEs, founding over 500 thousand new workplaces opened by SMEs and founding new start-ups. The right column include a middle and long-term goals, which are mean reaching such indicators as SME’s to Gross Domestic Product – 40%, all the enterprises – 90%, and contribution of people working on SME’s to the overall economic workforce – 50%. 21
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