TO MEDIA
Seeking survival of a better tomorrow
Dear Friends & Friends,
For some time all SMEs receive suffocating pressure to be shrinking business in a coordinated effort extermination of all professions. In this effort played an important role and exerted government policies, the privileges granted them and with the financial support given to them to enforce the rules of globalization with polymorphic polymorphic sites stores. So friends and girlfriends, launched and coordinated the killing fields.
We all know that SMEs this time fired from many fronts. Right now all of us are facing tremendous inability to pay, and of course we can not meet operating expenses of everyday life. We must all understand that today under economic conditions which are unable to have the basic goods to our business and it is not possible to suffer no other charge as another increase in tariffs for public utilities, etc. Freeze on increases in utilities tariffs charged to the operating cost of our business.
Dear friends and girlfriends, margins patience of all our colleagues have been exhausted, the only thing that interests them is try to meet current obligations in order to live their families and of course not to stay unemployed. But the great difficulty of liquidity and poor mobility causes our colleagues to reduce both their markets and of course being forced to sell their products at low profit margin in order to be competitive with supermarkets and illegal trade. We indicatively mention the great weakness of payments faced by all our businesses:
INSURANCE: To give a favorable adjustment circular in 80 months with no down payment to finally be able to settle their debts SMEs IKA to allow our colleagues to get insurance clearance.
OAU .: 60% of our colleagues have saved their insurance rights, and having to be circular debt adjustment in 80 monthly installments with no down payment, or otherwise added 15% of the monthly insurance contribution is around EUR 65, to finally enable all SMEs to settle their contributions and recover their insurance rights.
TAX: No other tax burden on already indebted colleagues to completion, poll tax, property tax, VAT increase etc. because this time businesses are at breaking point.
Electricity: 10% of the consumer society of the territory indicates defaulted and recourse to settlement arrangements, debts not consumers nationwide is 17%.
OTE: Rose delays by 20 to 30% as shown by the data of the newspaper “Eleftherotypia”.
DEYAMV: There are major delays in payment of our colleagues across the country.
Natural gas (CPC): 7% of consumers unable to pay recently.
State fees: In major delays in all municipalities.
business rentals: In long delays and countless arrangements. A key issue that call the Ministry of Finance in cooperation with the Ministry of Regional Development and Competitiveness propose renegotiating rents and freeze on evictions. We recommend directly to create a committee of experts with the participation of Chambers for legislative intervention.
Dishonored checks: Explosion dishonored checks by 45%.
TIRESIAS SA .: 1,000,000 companies from official data TIRESIAS SA Finally we need to enable dual opportunity many companies have pay off and held hostage until today.
Banking System: Great indebtedness of entrepreneurs cease lending, continuous discomfort from collection agencies to entrepreneurs and consumers, and of course to provide new loan to our colleagues need doubtful guarantees to banks or property or guarantors.
Suspension of Public auctions: We recommend to have at least one year moratorium by IKA and WHO to provide liquidity to the market because of the crisis, and to make favorable adjustments to relieve SMEs.
VAT .: A decisive role was played by the continuous increases in VAT in consumer products essentially affected all sectors and all small businesses and consumers.
A) Reduction of VAT on all consumer products in order to have development course perspective. Today all households and businesses are in red. B) Partial payment of VAT more and more business because the crisis deep they can not pay the tax in installments forced into current difficult period not even submit periodic statements to cover current daily needs for the smooth running of their business this situation leads many companies face problems of legitimacy, but also deprives a considerable part of the planned financial revenues. the immediate restoration of partial payment of the VAT option therefore necessary. This measure will stimulate and enhance the liquidity of companies providing opportunity for better planning.
C) Payment of VAT within one month of invoice.
Transactions on VAT between entrepreneurs and the public bodies on credit (invoices). In these cases, the seller is obliged to pay the VAT due within two to Tax despite the fact that our colleagues did not collect VAT and sometimes collected after several months to years when it comes to dealing with the public. Therefore judge necessary legislation according to which in case of a transaction on credit, the buyer will be required to pay at least how VAT vendor within the month of invoicing.
D) owes the government to our business. It is known the major problem faced by SMEs with lack of liquidity worrying is that healthy businesses are affected and threatened by the general lack of liquidity in the market. This is why the problem requires immediate attention. Initially proposing the direct offsetting debts for VAT with Tax Returns. Also suggest a kind of factoring without recourse to the business requirements of the public. business crowd have been deadlocked since the public is slow to repay. Through this financial product business requirements of the public can be granted to the credit institution without recourse, which undertakes to repay the requirement of the business.
Fuel: The continuous increases in fuel have greatly complicate the movements of all of us and of course dramatically limited the attendance of domestic tourism.
a) Department: operate in an uncontrolled time employ workers part time and of course generate large unfair competition to all companies with sales below cost.
b) Multinational companies: large cartels such as oil, milk, tobacco, food, etc. they have imposed their own pace and managed the fortunes of both SMEs and consumers,
c) illegal trading: scourge for all small and medium entrepreneurs, and of course no control to stop this scourge, which in the end creates great evasion to the detriment of the state and in the end to pay legitimate businesses that are called daily to support our national economy, with more and more measures. This great injustice fragmenting all small and micro enterprises. For this, the phenomenon in central urban tissue business to have a host with a padlock. To provide smooth operation of the market need to be rules to stop the illegal trading unaccountable, that exists both in our city and the rest of the Territory. For us there needs to be a protective shield those undertakings affected, as these companies have viable prospects and operating tomorrow.
d) Vending machines: Tax ataxia (without proof). No effective control.
e) Nonexistent business planning. Consistently fellow undertaken efforts in sectors already yperkerasmenoi.
f) Financial incentives: the state needs to understand that instead of constantly putting financial burdens to integrate all the small and very small businesses in the NSRF programs and other European programs in order to alleviate the already heavily indebted market.
g) Market Liquidity: Missing liquidity due to the very small market mobility when the consumer society is red, when each household tries to cover only the daily needs when department stores create unfair competition by selling goods below cost that is can there elementary liquid market, when every day the little money each company are given for operational needs.
Dear Friends,
Everyday we all witnessing a severe problem, which is the constant break-ins, this is because increasingly vulnerable social groups are at the stage of despair. But how to protect ourselves and will shield businesses? How many times have we become victims of prospective thieves? All of us a few years ago dear friends we were in the manufacturing process and because of the great industrialization suffered by our country was forced to lead in order to survive in these small businesses. This cell of the society of these people need the state and respect them, and of course to support them because they support very much our national economy. One of the biggest problems facing our businesses are continuing padlocks, that this in itself creates negative sentiment both consumers and all small and medium size entrepreneurs. You need the state to enable sustainability in all these operations, it is necessary to support all these companies with financial incentives and not by repeated charges, to give finally motivated young people who want to take care of business in order not sustains them as unemployed.
Support programs for all companies with financial incentives both for small micro-enterprises from 0-49 workers. Our Federation is trying to convince his fellow actors and to give pulse timer of life, to stop unemployment and the vision of development and prospects for all SMEs in our region.
Sincerely
The General. Secretary O.E.V.E.M.
Costas Kogias