2016-09-08
Business entities will be able to receive more than 600 types of services in one building, based on the one-stop-shop principle, - implementation of project of the Business House that is a significant part of the Government's 4-point reform plan, has been launched today.
Business House is a completely groundbreaking model based on the public-private partnership principle and ensures provision of the services by various ministries and state agencies in one space and through single e-platform.
List of provided services include management of the state property and privatization; issuance of natural resource licenses and State Programs aimed at fostering of agriculture sector; services provided by the Entrepreneurship Development Agency within the frames of Program "Produce in Georgia", as well as services provided by Partnership Fund, etc.
Overall, the list encompasses more than 600 services provided by the state to the business and each of them will be available in one space.
Revolutionary project that will change the landscape of interaction between the state and the business, - Prime Minister assessed the project.
Giorgi Kvirikashvili considers that the Business House will significantly ameliorate the quality and limit the time and costs of the service provision process.
"This is an important direction of the governance reform that will simplify significantly business activities. This is the step toward implementation of the Government's customer-friendly concept. We are launching governance reform that is one of the most important directions of the 4-point plan. General as well as VIP service zones and the principle "everything is available everywhere" will be operative in the facility in question. This means that Business House will provide every service that may be needed by the companies. Representatives of the enterprises will be able to book the service in advance and receive it later on the spot.
Principle "Just Once" will also be operative - meaning that after the company submits its information to the Business House for the purpose of obtaining of its first service, it will not be required to resubmit the same information to receive other types of services. Information will be stored and during the visit to any other state agency the representative of the company will not have to resubmit the same information to receive the service in question. This will save time and resources, including financial assets and services provided in the transparent environment limit the chances of corruption," - Prime Minister noted.
Giorgi Kvirikashvili thanked the Ministry of Economy, the Minister as well as foreign experts engaged in the drafting of the project and hoped that this idea will significantly ameliorate the business climate in Georgia.
Prime Minister also indicated that the governance reform also encompasses involvement in the governance and relevant step has also been taken. Namely, the Council of Investors has been set up to bring large business associations and IFIs together with the ministers representing economic bloc of the cabinet. The body discusses all planned legislative and institutional changes to avoid negative surprises for the relevant stakeholders.
According to the Prime Minister, significant steps are taken to implement remaining three directions of the 4-point plan.
"Relevant economic package has already been adopted within the frames of acceleration of economic reforms. According to the said legislative amendments, the corporate income tax will be abolished starting from the January 1 of the next year provided that the income will not be distributed but rather reinvested. This will assist mobilization of the internal investment resources. In terms of spatial development, we spare no efforts to ensure spending of additional 5 billion USD annually on modernization of Georgia's infrastructural modernization and create qualitatively novel, physically and visually new Georgia with completely modern within the timeframe of the next 4 years. This will enable Georgia to fully utilize its geo-political location and transit potential. In terms of the education system, some important steps have been taken and this field will entail some fundamental changes in the development of Georgia as a whole. We are very optimistic. The word revolution has some negative connotation, nevertheless I have to say that this project will be truly revolutionary in terms of changing the business environment through creating qualitatively new space for interaction between the state and the state. We consider that new era will begin in Georgia," - Prime Minister noted.
Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili, the first Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Dimistri Kumsishvili and the Project Manager Archil Bukia placed a symbolic capsule.
Prime Minister's Press Office