Nearly a million small businesses may close for the year from August last year. The forecast was voiced by the head of “OPORA Russia” Alexander Kalinin in interview to the newspaper “news“.
With such challenges doing business in Russia have not yet encountered, the expert said, commenting on associated with coronavirus pandemic of a new type of restrictive measures. He also said that all this coincided with the global economic downturn in recent months.
these factors will cause the demise of the enterprises of small and medium business in short time.
“From August 2019 to August 2020 may close to one million small businesses”, —leads edition of the words of the interlocutor.
the Federal tax service of the Russian Federation in August, publishes statistics on the number of subjects of small and average business at the Unified registry of small and medium business, said the expert.
It supports the head of the chamber of Commerce and industry Sergei Katyrin. He also admitted that the number of small and medium enterprises during the pandemic can be reduced.
