Not more than a third of small and medium-sized business may qualify to receive wage subsidies from the state, announced today, the business Ombudsman Boris Titov. To increase this figure could be the expansion of assistance and inclusion in the program not only entrepreneurs from the most affected industries, but all lost more than 30% of revenue. Also Boris Titov suggested to extend results to the business interest-free loans, excluding from the list of conditions the requirement of business more than a year.Today, the business Ombudsman Boris Titov presented the results of another monitoring “the Opinion of small and medium business support measures”. Preliminary analysis of data provided by the regions showed that government subsidies to the immediate needs and the payment of wages (12 thousand rubles per one employee) will be able to use only 28.4% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).Estimates of Ombudsman, the broadening of the criteria would encompass subsidies twice that of entrepreneurs.In General, according to monitoring, the relationship of entrepreneurs to support measures has improved. Compared with the results of the last survey the share of those who believes that the terms of support will not allow her to obtain, from 36% to 26% while the proportion of those who have already benefited from such support, and from 7% to 16%. The most popular measure called the postponement of the reporting (used for 28.4% of respondents), delay in the payment of taxes (22.7 percent), and a reduction in insurance premiums (15.7 per cent).However, over the last two weeks has slightly increased the number of refusals of support from 15.5% to 17%. Entrepreneurs complain about the failure to restructure the loans in getting direct payments and soft loans. In particular, the results of the fourth test purchase assistance, the Ombudsman identified a resumption of growth in the proportion of applications rejected by the banks for issuance of salary interest-free loans from 11% as at the end of April to 28%. The main reasons: the lack of a salary project or its non-use, bad credit history of head losses in the financial statements of the organization and in the business less than a year. The last requirement of the business Ombudsman proposes to delete.8.8% increase in the share of respondents indicating that a third or more of companies in the industry transferred their workers the lowest possible wages or sent to unpaid leave — this is now said to 58.5% of the respondents. 7.1% more of the respondents (55.7 per cent) believe that at least a third of companies have reduced the number of employees. Also in the list of the most common challenges is the inability to pay property tax for Iland payments under the lease (41,5%), inability to pay utility bills (38,7%), defaults by counterparties (39,9%), disruption of the uninterrupted supply of production goods (35.9 percent).Eugene Truckvault generalized treatment of small businesses and has proposed to expand the existing support measures in a pandemic — in particular, the bill proposes to introduce mechanisms to protect companies from discriminatory actions and abuses in the provision of state support. Thus for most small businesses, the risks of criminal prosecution in the period of quarantine restrictions is proposed to be reduced.Read more
