Whilst Ukraine continues to be an Eastern European centre of
conflict, the owners and managers of small and medium size enterprises in the
country continue to try and survive among the daily conflicts of doing
business. So, just as many people write out their list of hopes and intentions
for the year ahead, here is my wish list for doing business in Ukraine in 2014.
I wish I could:
1.
Convince the government that all the money
circulating in the economy does NOT belong to them.
2.
Go into a bank and do business WITHOUT the State
Tax Service being involved.
3.
Send a payment of EUR 100,000+ to another
country WITHOUT asking permission from the Ministry of External Affairs and
Ministry of Economy.
4.
Persuade all my accounting people that they
should be doing more WORK for my company than they do for the State Tax
Service.
5.
Receive a service from a government agency
WITHOUT them asking for a bribe.
6.
Persuade people to STOP asking me for my
PASSPORT. I have told you my name already, just believe that I am telling you
the truth.
7.
Provide people with copies of documents and NOT
have to keep giving them the ORIGINAL document every time I want to do
something.
8.
STOP using those stupid document stamps
Is this all too much to ask? Why not. Because in REAL
European countries all of the above already happens. Let’s hope that one day
Ukraine can break free from old soviet systems.
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