The authorities updated the conditions to issue subsidies to small and medium enterprises under the preferential loan program

The above conditions suggested that the maximum amount of the subsidy is limited to 9.75%. Banks receive this money to reimburse the income made on preferential loans, said the newspaper.

The limit under the Minsk program for a year will amount to 100 billion rubles, Vdomosti reported at the end of January. It will be available for small and medium enterprises on the list of priority industries, which now updates the Government.

The need to adjust the formulas to subsidize the interest rate is associated with the increase in budget load due to the growth of the key rate, the director of the Regional Policy Center of Ranepa Vladimir Klimanov told the newspaper. According to him, the previous formula was introduced at a time when the rate was less than 10%and did not take into account the risks of interest for the budget.

In addition, a change in the subsidy is associated with a reduction in the support of small businesses, the expert added. If before there was a separate national project, now only the federal within the “Effective Economy” project is valid, which affects only separate high -tech companies and assigns a fairly small amount of money, not designed for a wide range of companies , Klimanov said.

At the end of January, the SME Corporation said that the number of small and medium -sized companies in Russia reached 6.59 million that indicated that in 2024, more than 1 million legal entities and individual businessmen were registered in the country.