The number of small enterprises in the Vitebsk region increased by almost 10%

July 21, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotov - BELTA/. The number of small business enterprises in the Vitebsk region has increased by almost 10% to about 8.2 thousand legal entities compared to the data as of early July 2010. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press center of the regional tax inspection authority.

As of July 1, a total of over 35.7 thousand subjects of small entrepreneurship were registered in the region, including about 27.6 thousand individual entrepreneurs. The number of individual entrepreneurs decreased by approximately 6% compared to July 2010.

This category of taxpayers increased payments to the budget by approximately 13% to Br301.6 billion in January-June compared to the same period in 2010 in comparable terms, while the growth in payments from small businesses and organizations exceeded 18%. The largest share in the total volume of receipts comes from small business entities in wholesale trade (about 26.7%), as well as those engaged in manufacturing activities (18.6%) and working in construction (over 10%).

The share of small business receipts in the consolidated budget revenues of the region was about 11%. Among the districts, the largest share of small entrepreneurship payments in budget revenues is noted in Shumilino district, where small business generated over 47.5% of the district's revenues in January-June, as well as in Vitebsk (about 34%) and Polotsk (almost 30%) districts. If, for the region as a whole, the share of individual entrepreneurs in budget payments amounted to about 2.5% based on the results of 6 months, then in Orsha this figure approached 10%, and in Lepel, Glubokoe, and Postavy districts, individual entrepreneurs generated about 9% of the district budget revenues.

As of July 1, 11 subjects of small entrepreneurship had budget arrears totaling over Br470 million. Compared to the data as of early June, the volume of small business debts decreased by almost 44%.-0-