Data about small and medium-sized businesses will be placed on the register

Lately in Russia great efforts are put for small and medium-sized businesses support. Information agency Credinform has already prepared several publications related to this topic in 2016: in January "Monitoring of small and medium-size enterprises support"; April "What are the small and medium enterprises waiting from the State?"; and May "New limit values for income from business activities".

Despite taken measures, it is early to call business conditions favorable. According to the data of the National social organization «Opora Rossii», about 17 mln people work in this category of enterprises officially, among them 30% are individual entrepreneurs (IE) and about 70% work on small and medium enterprises (SME). However, SME interest in the gross domestic product structure is only 20%. At the same time, as a result of efforts made lately, about 40% of purchase for needs of the government authorities and government-owned corporations operating according the 44 and 223 Federal Laws, draw up contracts with small and medium business. Total transactions volume achieved 28 bln RUB. Difficulties in access to the information about purchase restrain from the increase in purchase volume. Development of the electronic register of SME suppliers aimed to solve this problem and will operate since August 1, 2016.

Insertion of SME in the register will be carried out by the Federal Tax Service (FTS). Reason for placing on the register will be data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL) and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs (EGRIP), and also data provided by IE and SME about average number of employees for the previous year, income records and other information.

For listing on the register IE and SME should correspond to the imposed for small and medium-sized businesses requirements: annual turnover should not exceed 120 mln RUB for micro-enterprises, 800 mln RUB – for small enterprises and 2 bln RUB for medium enterprises. Average number of employees should not exceed 15 people for micro-enterprises, 100 people for small enterprises and 250 people for medium enterprises.

Data will be placed on the register at free access during 5 years since publication date. Information in the register is supposed to be updated every month. Among changes will be current removal from the register of IE and SME that lost such status. In case of pretensions from enterprises and entrepreneurs, they will have to confirm their status of small and medium business in the tax authorities or in a judicial proceeding.

As expected, use of the register will help to simplify the process of SME participation in purchase and receiving of support of the Government. Earlier enterprises needed to provide corresponding certificates to confirm the correspondence to the criteria of small and medium business and IE, and now listing on the register is sufficient.

You can estimate novation by learning the List of small businesses and socially-oriented NPO (non-profit organizations) as grant recipients in the RF. This list contains 64 520 companies. Access to the list is open for subscribers of the Information and analytical system Globas-i.