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The sitting of Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian business-dialogue
XV Assembly of Business Circles of Belarus
On March 5, 2014 XV Assembly of Business Circles of Belarus took place in Minsk. During the Assembly the Draft “National Business Platform. Free entrepreneurship – thriving country” was presented to public at large. The event was organized on the initiative of Association of Legal Entities “Republican Confederation of Entrepreneurship”, Public Association “Minsk Capital Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers”, Coordination Council on Elaboration, Development and Promotion of NBP, with the assistance of Council on Entrepreneurship Development of Republic of Belarus. The Assembly participants analysed priority directions in improving business climate in the country, discussed the ways of their implementation developed by the business community and proposed in the Draft Platform. In all, Draft NBP-2014 contains 92 complex proposals, aimed on creation of favourable conditions for doing private business in Belarus. Draft National Business Platfrom is unanimously assumed as a basis. Meeting with world bank experts
“Problems of financing of small and medium businesses”
Еxpress-analysis of cooperation and knowledge transfer between industry and public research
At present the FP7 project "Knowledge Transfer Community to bridge the gap between research, innovation and business creation - NoGAP" is being implemented in Belarus. The NoGAP consortium is composed of 13 organizations from 6 countries of which 3 are EU members (Germany, Romania, Slovakia) and 3 are members of the Eastern Partnership (Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia).
Sitting of commission for establishing or changing tax rated for IEs
Initially, the draft “On establishing single tax rates for individual entrepreneurs and other individuals within base single tax rates for individual entrepreneurs and other individuals, approved by Tax Code of the Republic of Belarus” stipulated single tax rate increase by 40%.
With a glance of private discussion conducted, proposals of individual entrepreneurs and associations of entrepreneurs received, the commission approved a new draft, stipulating single tax rate augmentation by 14 – 18%. As individual entrepreneurs noted themselves, city authorities allowed for their proposals at most.
Belarus – Lithuania. Franchising opportunities
At the end of the seminar the opportunities for financing small and medium business were conferred. About this informed project manager of Vilnius region in АВ «Siauliubankas» Viktoras Budraitis.
