Expenses under the national SME project until 2030 may exceed 700 billion rubles

The Ministry of Economy and the SME Corporation estimated the costs of the national project for the development of small and medium-sized businesses in 2024-2030. a total of 713 billion rubles, follows from the materials prepared for the profile strategic session chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (Vedomosti has a presentation). The meeting is scheduled for September 5, the session should present a new concept of supporting SMEs until 2030, discussions in the relevant working groups have been conducted since the spring of 2023.

Next year, expenses may amount to a little less than 80 billion rubles, but it is expected that the budget of the national project will increase annually, follows from the presentation. In 2030, support will cost 124 billion rubles. The current national project “Small and Medium Enterprises and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiatives” is designed until the end of 2024, but at the end of spring, the government as a whole agreed that its tools should be reformatted. For qualitative changes in small business, support measures should be more concentrated, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said at a meeting of the government commission for the development of SMEs on May 29.