Cutting Red Tape – Legal and Institutional Tools to Promote SMEs

Figures & Tables

Administrative area perceived as an area loaded with administrative burdens (N=689)			Administrative area perceived as an area loaded with administrative barriers (N=675)
Rank	Area	Share	Area	Share
1	payment of public duties	53%	payment of public duties	45%
2	accounting	46%	accounting	38%
3	inspections	27%	employees	29%
4	employees	25%	inspections	29%
5	construction permits	22%	construction permits	20%
6	(re)establishing an enterprise	5%	(re)establishing an enterprise	9%

	Greater stability of sectoral legislation	Change in sectoral legislation with deregulation	Change in sectoral legislation with procedural simplification	Introduction of extra e-administrative services & development of the existing ones	Organizational merging of the bodies to achieve uniform relation with the parties	Development of public officials’ solutions-oriented attitude
Dealing with the employees	0.134^** (N=458)	0.151^** (N=455)	0.076 (N=455)	0.015 (N=450)	0.019 (N=450)	−0.002 (N=451)
Taxes and other contributions	0.051 (N=462)	0.099^* (N=461)	0.093^* (N=461)	0.013 (N=451)	0.073 (N=451)	0.059 (N=454)
Accounting and financial reports	0.095^* (N=457)	0.123^** (N=456)	0.122^** (N=456)	0.053 (N=448)	0.121^* (N=449)	0.079 (N=450)
Inspection and control procedures	0.166^*** (N=444)	0.132^** (N=444)	0.063 (N=444)	0.018 (N=437)	0.059 (N=437)	0.096^* (N=439)
Construction and similar permits	0.201^*** (N=407)	0.127^* (N=407)	0.078 (N=409)	−0.053 (N=402)	0.078 (N=405)	0.143^** (N=406)
(Re)establishment of an enterprise	0.116^* (N=414)	0.179^*** (N=412)	0.069 (N=415)	−0.062 (N=409)	0.044 (N=410)	0.093 (N=411)

Type of enterprise	Number of employees	Annual turnover	Annual balance sheet total
Medium-sized enterprise	EU: < 250Slovenia: < 250	EU: ≤ €50 mill.Slovenia: ≤ €40 mill.	EU: ≤ €43 mill.Slovenia: ≤ €20 mill.
Small-sized enterprise	EU: < 50Slovenia: < 50	EU: ≤ €10 mill.Slovenia: ≤ €8 mill.	EU: ≤ €10 mill.Slovenia: ≤ €4 mill.
Micro enterprise	EU: < 10Slovenia: < 10	EU: ≤ €2 mill.Slovenia: ≤ €0.7 mill.	EU: ≤ €2 mill.Slovenia: ≤ €0.35 mill.

Key (administrative) areas
Doing Business by the World Bank (research Focus is on: procedure, time & cost)	Research performed on SMEs, 2016–2017 (research focus is on the RTR perception by SMEs)
starting a business; dealing with construction permits; getting electricity; registering property; getting credit; protecting minority investors; paying taxes; trading across borders; enforcing contracts; and resolving insolvency.	sectoral regulation; employees; payment of public duties; accounting; inspections; construction permits; and (re)establishing an enterprise.