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“Perspective”: They Throw Small Business Back And Forth

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“Perspective”: They Throw Small Business Back And Forth
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Deputy Chairman of the Republican Public Association “Perspective” believes that targeted inspections of entrepreneurs by the tax authorities may increase in numbers.

– After the Supreme Court has taken the decision that the Moscow documents given to the Belarusian entrepreneurs meet the norms, which means, individual entrepreneurs can use them, the people have thrown off reserve and started working under the accompanying documents which they received in Russia. Moreover, many Russian manufacturers and importers at the territory of the Russian Federation made the certificates themselves. Thus, some Belarusian entrepreneurs do have certificates, but still there are those who continue dickering at their own risk,Viachaslau Pilipuk has told in an interview to Radio Racyja.

– Have there been inspections, or confiscation of goods?

– The inspections happen periodically, and I predict they will grow in numbers. I mean, the budget needs money not only in the form of taxes, but also fines. The officials realize that not all entrepreneurs keep their paperwork perfect, there is always someone to whom they can come over with an inspection and find something. Therefore, sometimes they practice partial goods confiscation in the regions. However, it is worth mentioning that not all small business owners go to the court after this.

– How stable is such situation?

– It may bounce one way or another any moment. Another point is that the authorities saw that the entrepreneurs are ready for protests if they put too much pressure on them, so there probably will be no mass inspections. I don’t exclude though that the tax authorities will conduct targeted inspections, which, as I already told, would continue and even grow in numbers, I believe.

– Are the entrepreneurs satisfied with such situation?

– Of course they are not. There is a saying: business likes it quiet. Development of economy and small business movement depends on stability in the legislation. This is a necessary condition so that small business would not be thrown back and forth, and so that there would be confidence in the future.

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