User:Самуйлов Александр/National project “Small and Medium-Sized Entrepreneurship and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiative”

The National Project «Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support individual entrepreneurial initiative» is one of the national projects in Russia for the period from 2019 to 2024. In February 2020, First Vice Premier Andrei Belousov was appointed curator of the project. Maxim Reshetnikov, Minister of Economic Development, became the head of the project.

Description
The national project “Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support entrepreneurial initiative” aims to expand access of small and medium-sized entrepreneurship (hereinafter - SME) to financial resources, including preferential financing.

It should achieve the following target: increase in the number of employed SMEs, including individual entrepreneurs, to 25 million people.

The project should solve the following tasks:


 * Improvement of the business environment, including simplification of tax reporting for entrepreneurs, who use cash register equipment;
 * Creation of a digital platform focused on supporting the production and sales activities of small and medium-sized businesses, including individual entrepreneurs;
 * Improvement of the system of purchases made by major customers from small and medium-sized businesses, including individual entrepreneurs;
 * Facilitating access to preferential financing, including an annual increase in the volume of preferential loans granted to small and medium-sized businesses, including individual entrepreneurs;
 * Creation of an acceleration system for small and medium-sized businesses, including individual entrepreneurs, including support infrastructure and services, as well as their accelerated development in such areas as urban environment improvement, science and technology, social sphere and ecology;
 * Modernization of the exporter support system for small and medium-sized enterprises, including individual entrepreneurs, with the goal of increasing the share of such exporters in non-commodity exports to at least 10 percent;
 * Creation of a support system for farmers and development of rural cooperation;
 * Provision of favorable conditions for self-employed individuals by creating a new tax regime that includes automatic transmission of sales information to the tax authorities of the Russian Federation, release from reporting obligations, and from paying a single tax based on revenue, that includes insurance contributions.

According to the project passport on the website of the Government of the Russian Federation, the total budget for the implementation of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiative" will be 481.5 billion rubles, of which 416.2 will be taken from the federal budget, another 11.4 from regional budgets, and 53.9 will be attracted from non-budget sources.

Federal projects within the National Project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiative" include:


 * «Acceleration of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises»
 * «Promotion of Entrepreneurship»
 * «Expanding access of SMEs to financial resources, including preferential financing»
 * «Creation of a support system for farmers and development of rural cooperation»
 * «Improvement of conditions for running an entrepreneurial activity»

=== Calendar of planned events ===


 * 2019 - the amount of individual entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized enterprises will be 19,6 million. The percentage of small businesses in Russia’s GDP will be 22,9% and the proportion of this economic sector in total non-commodity exporting - 8,8%. The number of the self-employed people should increase up to 200 000 by the end of the year.
 * 2020 - The year of entrepreneurship in Russia. The amount of individual entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized enterprises will be at least 20,5 million of people and the percentage of this sector in country’s GDP will reach 23,5%. The development of access mechanisms to the stock market for small businesses and arranging complex services of government support for entrepreneurs in 40 centers of “My business”, where 4% SME’s subjects can get a support. Since July 1 2020 no less than 800 000 small and midsize entrepreneurs will be exempt from the obligation to submit a tax return.
 * 2021 - total procurement of the largest customers from small and medium-sized businesses in 2021 will be 3,8 trillion rubles and the amount of employed in this sector will be 21,6 million of people. The proportion of small and midsized businesses in GDP will reach 25% and the percentage of SME’s subjects in total non-commodity exporting - 9,25%. The amount of small and middle-sized companies entered foreign markets by using Exporting support center will be 9,1 thousand.
 * 2022 - Approximately 7,3 billion rubles from the state budget will be allocated for creating and development of governmental micro financial organizations - almost the same as in the last three years. Herewith 22,9 million of people will be working in small and middle-sized businesses, while the percentage of this sector in GDP will reach 27,5%. The amount of the self-employed will be 1,8 million of people by the end of 2022.
 * 2023 - Almost a third of GDP will come from small and medium-sized businesses. The support for small and midsize companies will be arranged in 100 “My business” centers, the percentage of small enterprises covered will be 9%. The amount of SME’s subjects entered a foreign markets by using exporting support centers will be 13,3 thousand. The proportion of small and midsize businesses in Russia’s GDP will reach 30% by the 2023 and in non-commodity exporting will be close to 10%.
 * 2024 - Implementation of the barriers removing mechanism for small businesses. The number of the employed in small and midsize entrepreneurship will be 25 million of people. The sector will provide 32,5% of the country’s GDP and 10% of non-commodity exporting. Procurement of the largest customers from small entrepreneurs will be 5 trillion rubles and the amount of the self-employed will reach 2,4 million people.

Implementation
On January 1, 2019, a program was launched to open “My Business” entrepreneurship support centers, a platform for providing comprehensive services, where entrepreneurs can quickly consult on applying for a loan and receiving government support under existing programs. By December 1, 60 such centers had opened, providing over 487 thousand services, holding almost 22 thousand events, in which more than 247 thousand people took part. An experiment has also started on the use of a special tax regime - the tax on professional income - in 4 pilot regions, that is Moscow, Moscow and Kaluga Oblasts, as well as in the Republic of Tatarstan. As of November 1, 2019, the number of self-employed people was 261 thousand people. For 2020, the figure for the number of self-employed people has been set at 800 thousand people, and the experiment itself will be expanded to 19 regions. In addition, a set of measures to support SMEs included access to microloans and credit at a preferential rate not exceeding 8.5% per annum. In July 2019, the Ministry of Economic Development selected 90 authorized banks to participate in the implementation of this program for lending to small and medium-sized businesses.

In September 2020, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov announced his readiness to reduce rates for business lending within the framework of the preferential state program “8.5%”. The so-called “8.5%” program provides for the provision of loans at a preferential rate for the purchase of fixed assets, financing of working capital, refinancing of loans, factoring, leasing, and microloans. Business support institutions were created at both the federal and regional levels and were adjusted to national goals over the 2 years of implementation of the national project. Business support institutions were created at both the federal and regional levels and were adjusted to national goals over the 2 years of implementation of the national project. Under the preferential lending program at a rate of 8.5%, agreements worth 1 trillion rubles were concluded within the framework of the national SME project. Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov emphasized that from 2021 it is planned to reduce the preferential lending rate from 8.5% to 7%. This will be one of the changes in the updated national project for SMEs, aimed at creating favorable conditions for the work of the self-employed and increasing their number; creating conditions for an easy start and comfortable doing business, including the transition from UTII to alternative tax regimes; acceleration of SMEs; creation of a digital platform for SME.

The number of self-employed people in 2020 exceeded the target set in the national SME project. Instead of the figure of 800 thousand recorded in the national project passport, the number of newly registered self-employed people as of October amounted to more than a million - 1,248,299, and at the end of the year exceeded 1.5 million people. а концу года превысило 1,5 млн человек. At the end of 2020, the largest customers entered into more than 300 thousand contracts with small and medium-sized businesses, and the volume of purchases reached 2.5 trillion rubles.

As of April 2021, according to the results of a survey conducted by ANO National Priorities together with Mail.ru Group, awareness of the national project was 81%.