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The economy of Belarus has taken 1st place in the world (from 178 countries) by quantity of paid taxes and tax collections (124 various tax payments). Such information was given by the World Bank and the International financial corporation. According to the last year's report the indisputable leader by quantity of tax payments was Uzbekistan with result of 130 payments this year Uzbekistan has moved on 2nd place reducing 12 payments.
3rd place was kept by Ukraine which increased quantity of tax payments from 98 to 99. China has reduced tax system from 44 to 33 tax payments, Russia - from 23 to 22 (!) payments, in Venezuela - 70 tax payments. On size of tax burden Belarus has kept ‛leadership“ among the CIS countries and 6 place in the world in spite of the fact that the quantity of the countries in a rating has increased from 175 to 178. If the Belarus company pays all demanded taxes today their size will make 144.4% from its profit at the same time there is certain progress in comparison with 186.1% in the last year's report. 144.4% in Belarus against 51.4% to Russia and 57.3% in Ukraine.
Materials from the website: http://www.charter97.org/ru/news/economics/

Only 169 individual entrepreneurs from more than 200 thousand have passed through re-registration procedure into the private unitary enterprises (PUE). Such information was given by the deputy minister of economy of Belarus Andrey Tur at press conference on September, 26.

Individual Entrepreneurs have only one and a half month (till November, 10) to change their status. If it does not occur after the named date the process of transformation IE into the legal person will occur not under the simplified scheme, but in accordance to general practice. For those who will not want to leave status IE, since January, 1st, 2008, according to decree requirements № 760, is able to employ workers only from the members of their family.

The deputy minister of economy has noticed, that "nobody is going to destroy individual entrepreneurs as a class". Norms of decrees 760 and 302, according to the deputy minister, operate within the limits of state policy strategy in small business development. "Individual entrepreneurs should develop to become more powerfully. It is impossible to be all time in small or short panties".

The deputy director of Department for Entrepreneurship of Ministry of Economics Evgenie Semenov has noticed, that preparation of all documents for transformation IE into PUE occupies only 10-12 days. Thus the official has agreed that the taxation for PUE will be a little higher than for IE.

For the 1st of August, 2007 the sum of tax revenues from the subjects of small business has made 1450.2 billion Br, individual entrepreneurs – 411.3 billion Br.
The sum of incomes from legal persons - subjects of small business has made 10.1% from total amount of the incomes supervised by tax bodies.
The sum of taxes of the specified size (411.3 billion Br) has been paid by 201.6 thousand individual entrepreneurs.

Information from the news agency "ECOPRESS"

On September 22, the track and field athletics semimarathon "Autumn leaves" has taken place in the Sovietskij area of Minsk round the Tsnjansky water basin. Run distances: 21 km and 95 m - for the participants at the age of 18 and older. The semimarathon "Autumn leaves" was organized for the purpose of popularization of a healthy way of life, development of sports communications, to attract children to sport and to reveal sports talents. The track and field athletics semimarathon was organazed for the first time in an ecologically pure natural zone of Minsk.
The sponsors are MCAEE, Local fund of supporting and organization of the Minsk international marathon, Administration of the Sovietskij area of Minsk, Club "Мэта-42". More than 100 people have taken part in the track and field athletics semimarathon.