thousands of entrepreneurs showed the wonders of energy, ingenuity and enterprise to provide multi-million metropolis with everything necessary for life in conditions of pandemic.
In no time the industry began to produce sanitisers and remedies. Without interruption grocery shops and taxis. Thousands daily services, from cleaning to training courses – Muscovites can receive by couriers or online.
the Majority of employers act responsibly and do my best to keep the labor collectives. Many continued the implementation of investment projects of development, for which special thanks to them.
Today you can hear the arguments on the subject, is there a future for business in Moscow. Of course, in the context of pandemic losses are inevitable. But I am sure that ahead of the Moscow business has good prospects.
This is not just words. We see that in the first week after the lifting of restrictions on the activities of the industry to work returned over 90% of the idle enterprises of Moscow.
And when the time comes – as quickly and vigorously will open its doors to trade, services and other business, which is still forced to be idle.
To help Moscow businesses, the city Government has adopted three support package with a total value of 85 billion rubles.
Trade, restaurants, services, hotels, cultural institutions, physical culture and sports, exhibition, entertainment and educational activities, leisure, tourism, small and medium businesses and other affected industries have received tax credits and payment by installments of rent and other mandatory payments. By mid-may, different forms of support have already benefited from 34.8 per thousand companies employing over 750 thousand people.
under the unprecedented city program of preferential refinancing (payment 6% rate) and credit (payment 8% rate) small and medium business the first loans totaling 2,4 billion rubles. Pending application in the amount of 180 billion rubles from 18 thousand SMEs. Every day the number of new preferential loans will increase in an arithmetic progression.
a separate set of support measures for the business, implementing development programmes, with a total of 13 different grants for the purchase of equipment, engineering, promotion of goods and services, compensation of other expenses. Documents to obtain these grants serves over 3,200 entrepreneurs.
Today the results of the monitoring of the situation in the Moscow business we decided to support entrepreneurs in several industries.
1. In the list of industries most affected by the pandemic are included private medical clinics, which��have alcolici with a significant decrease in the number of patients. Many people in the present circumstances postpone planned visits to the doctor.
to support private medicine, we have decided to extend until 31 December 2020, the date of payment of advance payments for the first quarter of 2020 for the property tax and land tax.
in addition, private clinics renting land plots and objects of uninhabited Fund, owned by the city of Moscow will be exempt from rent for the period from 1 March 2020 until the end of the alert, but not earlier than July 1, 2020
2. Mode of isolation has deprived the booths “Stamp” the most loyal customers – the elderly, many of whom bought your favorite newspaper during the traditional daily walks. Tourists disappeared, significantly reduced the number of passengers using surface transport and the metro, and then drastically decreased sales of printed products.
to support the distributors of print publications, we have decided to release them from payments for the right sales activities for 3 months from 1 April to 30 June.
3. a Key problem for many small innovative firms – how to prove to potential customers the beneficial properties of new products.
to alleviate this problem, the Moscow Government is launching a programme of pilot testing.
Several dozen of the Moscow universities, sectoral institutions, commercial companies and other sites ready to provide its infrastructure for pilot testing of innovative products in real or as close to them conditions.
A specialized innovation Agency of the city of Moscow will become the intermediary who will drive between innovative companies and sites for pilot testing.
to Apply for participation in pilot testing will be on the website i.moscow.
of Course, the best gift for business and residents to the Day of business would be the removal or easing of current restrictions.
But such decisions are not made “for the holidays”. First, we need to be sure that the situation allows to do so.
However, there is every reason to hope that the pause in work of the majority of Moscow businesses will soon come to an end.
With the Day of Russian entrepreneurship!
Source: on the website of the Moscow mayor.
