Market vendors to be removed from markets and forces to work in hypermarkets

At the consultations on entrepreneurship regulation issues a decision was adopted to maintain the existing taxation principle.

The coefficient 1.5 used for foreign goods imported from Russia without customs clearance, is to be increased to 2.

Besides, a decision to increase single tax has been reached.

“It will concern only top rates, lower values to remain the same, Interfax informs.

Entrepreneurs would be able to choose different ways of paying taxes as before: the common system of taxation majority of legal entities use, a simplified system or paying the single tax.

Besides, it has been decided that entrepreneurs importing car components will not be allowed to pay the single tax but will be entitled to simplified taxation rules.

It is a kind of extension of preferential administrative regime for payment to the budget. It is not a relief from the point of view of payments’ volume, but from the point if view of procedures. This relief will be accompanied but higher demands to having no “gray” schemes, no digressions from the existing law.

There would be some changes in work of private unitary enterprises. A draft decree on amendments to the simplified taxation system, which would simplify it considerably and decreasing taxes has been prepared. Thus, private unitary enterprises which were individual entrepreneurs before, conditions would be not worse than those for individual entrepreneurs in 2009.

As the same time, in the future to balance the structure of retail trade in the country conditions for expanding the network of hypermarkets are to be created, so that entrepreneurs were not reselling goods, but manufacturing them. It has been stated at the consultations that the state is interested in citizens’ being engaged in those business activities which are most beneficial for the economy.

Lukashenka’s press-service has noted that at the moment this decision is optimal. The duration of the new system is not defined however. It is planned that a corresponding regulatory document would be completed and adopted in the next few days.

On January 1, 2009 the article 3 of the Decree No. 285 of June 18, 2005 “On some measures for regulating entrepreneurial activities” is to cease to be effective. Goods from third countries released for free circulation in Russia and imported by Belarusian individual entrepreneurs are to be subject to customs clearance and payment of import VAT when imported to Belarus. Thus, entrepreneurs pay single tax with an increasing coefficient 1.5 to the tax rate and a fixed sum of the VAT now, which is calculates as a double sum of the single tax without a

Since January 1, 2009 VAT and customs fees when importing goods from the Russian Federation were to be done according to the standard procedure, that is to include customs clearance and customs fees payment. Individual entrepreneurs’ discontent and protests were proivoced by that.