The shopping center "Evikom" in Vitebsk was a meeting of entrepreneurs. Some specially came to the meeting, as of March 1, have not started to work. According to Irina Yaskevich, member of the organizing committee to create a union of entrepreneurs "Together", returned to work about half the merchants.
Irina Yaskevich: "Who believe the authorities, those went to work. This is, shall we say, credibility: that in fact will not be until no penalties for trade in goods with unconfirmed quality - do not have certification documents. Due to the fact that such documents, we can’t obtain, and due to the fact that excessively increasing taxes, entrepreneurs and stops. Someone has already started to work, and I believe that such still be added in the near future. At the meeting, I was told that on March 9 at the Department of Enterprise took suggestions from our delegation that met with them and the Ministry of Taxes. At least, we listened, and now we wait for the results. "
According Yaskevich, one of the proposals from entrepreneurs - to reduce taxes, in particular, by stopping the growth-enhancing factor. Another - to establish a working group with the inclusion of entrepreneurs there to solve the problem together with the documents on certification of goods.
To date, clarity in the last question is no. Entrepreneurs promise that you can work "without papers" and that is about to be issued clarifying what that means - without a specific document. Therefore, half of Vitebsk entrepreneurs resume trading in markets and shopping centers, and half wait. They fear that as a result of incorrect formulations promises from government agencies may fall under the punitive sanctions for violating trade rules.
On March 1, the majority of trading places in the markets of Vitebsk, Polotsk, Orsha, Haradok and other cities of Vitebsk region, selling light industry goods, deserted, and the shutters were closed.
This situation is due to the fact that on March 1, in accordance with Presidential Decree №222 dated May 16, 2014, ended the period during which the individual entrepreneurs who pay a flat tax, can realize the remnants of light industry products, imported from the countries of the Customs Union without proof of purchase and receipt of these goods.
Because of fears that the regulatory authorities from this day will impose sanctions on a non-certified products traders entrepreneurs have decided to stop trading.
February 28 briefing in Minsk, Deputy Economy Minister Dmitry Cool said that in the near future the Government of Belarus will prepare a paper on the legalization of the sale of the remnants of light industry goods by individual entrepreneurs who do not have documents to them. In addition, the official said that the regulatory authorities will not apply any sanctions against the SP before the adoption of the new decree. "Anyone can work in a relaxed atmosphere", - assured the deputy minister.
However, many of the entrepreneurs react to this statement with a grain of salt. In response, the Republican public association "Perspective" (organization for small businesses) make their own appeal to the Deputy Minister Dmitry steep, in which he asked at the legislative level to impose a moratorium on any checks IP, to reach a solution that would satisfy all parties. The organization estimates that on March 1, markets and shopping centers of Belarus did not come to work for about 80% of individual entrepreneurs.
In many markets have been meeting entrepreneurs. Thus, Polotsk market in Vitebsk traders who choose not to pay taxes and do not go to work until they see the new documents regulating business activities, gathered at the meeting, initiated by Anatoly Shapovalov, an activist of the public association "Perspective".
"There is no hope that the new document is something fundamentally change our lives. After it is cooked the same structures that were previously created us only operational problems. "Perspective" has made a number of suggestions, we sent them to the. However, my personal suggestion is not included, and I offered to write to immediately raise the salaries of our customers, or shopping malls and markets remain empty, and not because of the fact that we do not work. People simply do not have the money! "- Said Anatoly Shapovalov.
Individual entrepreneurs, trading in the commodity markets Vitebsk, wrote an appeal to Alexander Lukashenko. The appeal some of them hung on their rolling shutters closed - so that buyers understand why they do not work.
According to svaboda.org and vitebsk.cc
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