“the Business showed a willingness to quickly connect to the most pressing issues,” – said Vice-speaker. Karelova has reminded that in a short time, many enterprises were mobilized and began to produce personal protective equipment to compensate for their deficit. With the participation of the business unfolded the stationary laboratory for the identification of coronavirus infection, was built the hospital. Separately, she noted the role of entrepreneurship in support of volunteerism, stressing that the theme of social responsibility of business “a promising, beneficial, popular life and time.” Also, according to her, the new level implementation of programs of corporate social responsibility and philanthropy.
“This is all some kind of remarkable rise has occurred with the development of projects and programs,” had been her words.
With the consent of the President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin, who believes that the social aspect has become an integral part of sustainable business development. According to him, the socially responsible behavior of companies has helped them to adapt to a difficult situation.
the auditor of the audit chamber Dmitry Zaitsev told that prepared recommendations to the government about the government encouragement of responsible business, and the Deputy of the state Duma Nikolay Nikolaev stressed that many of the issues relating to the business, will require revision at the legislative level. According to him, in connection with the pandemic, at the enterprise there are new risks. “The first time we face such scale and with such attention to this subject,” he said.
In turn, Chairman of Commission OP on development of the nonprofit sector Elena Topoleva-Soldunova noted the importance of interaction between business and non-profit organizations. She stressed that during a pandemic formed many partnerships. “The last two months is the time of cooperation in various fields. All parties have realized that it is mutually beneficial,” she said. According to Poplar-Soldunova, thanks to such partnerships was able to help many people. She also recalled on a new measure of state support, which has become their result. The measure involves the return of tax deduction on profit tax for companies that made donations to NGOs. “These benefits were more than 20 years ago, then they were canceled, long discussion. Today they were returned. The company will receive a deduction for income tax if they make donations in the form of property or cash to non-profit organizations, which are represented in two registers of the Ministry of economic development”, she said, noting that businesses and NGOs today, it is important to consider how to use this benefit to to prevent abuses.
