The Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of Moscow received almost 13 thousand calls from representatives of various industries, affected by the spread of coronavirus infection. Federal News Agency learned about, what problems did the metropolitan business face and how do entrepreneurs suggest overcoming the current crisis. Watch our video.
Congress and exhibition activities in Moscow “stand” for the third month. According to surveys of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs, a lull in the market has reduced staff in 10% companies. Without support from the state, by mid-June this figure will reach 50%, warned the chairman of the supervisory board of the Moscow Convention and Exhibition Bureau Andrey Zhukovsky.
“The vast majority of market participants lost money. When events are allowed, they will not have the finances to participate in exhibitions and congresses. Subsidy availability, which will help them take part in advance, will be an extremely important measure for us ”, - he said during a working online meeting with representatives of the department.
Russian exhibitions annually conclude contracts worth more than 3 trillion rubles, the expert recalled and asked the capital authorities to allocate a subsidy, including, to pay rent.
“It takes six months to prepare events, at least two to three months. If quarantine measures run out, we cannot start fast, we will have a cooking period. Therefore, we ask for action before 31 December, - he explained. - We ask 7,5 billion rubles by the end of the year, though, that before the crisis we brought taxes more 15 billion.
Last year, Moscow received the so-called tourist "Oscar", winning the World Travel Awards main nomination. This is largely due to the creative clusters Winzavod and Artplay. Today, all industry sites are busy more 300 human. They ask the authorities to provide all market players with a subsidy and tax holidays for a year, recalculate VAT and income tax, simplify targeted financial assistance.
“If the city provides a monthly compensation for shortfalls in the amount of the order 100 million rubles, it'll be enough, so that we can remove this stress factor with our residents and update business processes in the new economy. This amount will allow us to build a new format for the work of creative industries and not lose everything., what was created for 15 years", - stated the Director General of Creative Laboratory Design Territory LLC Maya Svistukhina.
Creative industry workers complain, that they switched to удал udalenka ’and at the same time have to pay for office rent.
“We are asking you to help create an online platform for promoting creative products.”. In format, may be, exchanges, organize together with the department. This will be a new tool for promoting services and products online and offline. ”, - said the public commissioner for culture in the capital Maria Olshanskaya.
Social entrepreneurs are “at the forefront” almost on a par with doctors. Childcare, people with disabilities and socially unprotected categories of citizens require more and more efforts and means.
“A sufficiently important measure is the extension of any support measures to social entrepreneurs, included in the register ", - noted the chairman of the expert council for the development of social entrepreneurship of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Natalya Peryazeva.
Employees of the fashion industry and light industry are experiencing a lack of demand, they said, "Huge stress". They also have nothing to pay., taxes and rental of premises. No orders - revenue tends to zero. The biggest blow was felt by those, who did not manage to organize their online store. Industry experts gathered the opinions of a wide variety of players and devised ten measures to save it.
“We are waiting from the department, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and the entire state, what will they help us survive this month, predict the situation, try to support loans, neat influences, listening carefully to the business community ”, - Founder of the Beinopen project told a FAN correspondent Alexey Bazhenov.
the main thing, so that as few talented and active businessmen as possible go bankrupt, emphasized expert in fashion and light industry. In his opinion, Today, domestic brands have huge potential for working with domestic retailers.
“We have brands from our community, which we have been following for five years, now sold worldwide. They are very interested in our fashion industry., we are very interested in them ", - he said. - The consumer basket in Russia will average on average 20-30%, but with us 80% clothing and footwear retail market takes import ".
Alexey Bazhenov sure, that under favorable conditions, Russian manufacturers can easily "take" 10% import.
“Cool guys just appeared, which have, what to tell, - explained the expert. - If our market can support them, they will have a little more money, to shoot harder in the international arena. Moreover, they are already integrated into the community.. Then, certainly, in the next ten years, Russian fashion will come to life ".
President, InfoWatch Group Natalya Kasperskaya proposed to provide subsidies for the purchase of Russian software and the provision of IT services to companies with state participation.
“It is important to prevent a drop in demand. This measure seems very important to us.. It’s critical for us to get a rental discount: people are mostly sitting at home right now, work remotely, we do not use offices at all, but we pay big money for it, - said the head of the working group on information security of the national project "Digital Economy". - Most IT-business is concentrated in Moscow, order 70%. let's, so that money does not leave the family, we will purchase in Moscow! Non Foreign Microsoft, and domestic analogues. I think, that colleagues will provide good discounts ".
All requests from the metropolitan business will be heard, said the head of the department of entrepreneurship and innovative development of the city of Moscow Alexey Fursin.
"Thank you so much. I have not seen such a level of quality of work between city entrepreneurs and public associations in all my practice. ”, - said the chairman of the working group.
The department is considering ways out of the situation and intends to take its initiative to the federal level in the near future..
“We will take on all the work, related to the justification of instruments with the calculation of shortfalls, necessary budget, to work it out with the economic bloc and specialized colleagues, - said the head of the department. - We see on various resources the number of cases, not survivors, recovered people. Probably, it’s logical to keep the same schedule for business. Our actions must be so quick, so that we lose as few entrepreneurs as possible, because it will be harder to cure them later ”.
Recall, The Moscow government approved three packages of measures to support business. The latter provides for subsidies to small and medium enterprises up to 6% per annum on previously taken loans and up to 8% on new, taken to cover current activities. The document also expands the list of industries., who can receive deferrals on property tax and land tax before the end of this year.
Author: Anastasia Alekseeva; Boris Grishin
