Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CSERNENSZKY László
Ministry of Economy and Transport, Hungary
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„In Tune with Business” Program –Why?
Objective:
Reduction of compliance, EU Objective:
operational and transaction costs Administrative costs to be
of enterprises to an unavoidable reduced by 25% until 2012.
minimum level
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„In Tune with Business” – How?
„In Tune with Business” Program together with Deregulation Program
was approved by the Government in April, 2007
Action plan
Simplification of tax and contribution declarations Mid-term task
Consolidation of declarations and payments
Making use of electronic procedures Short-term partial results
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Accessibility of company related information Mostly within a year
Company data via Internet,
Positive reference data, precautionary data Good partial results
Lessons (recommendations):
• Business sector – government partnership
• Inter-ministerial and agency cooperation
• Project implementation (organisation and
procedures -> co-ordination)
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Lessons (warnings):
To avoid
- hesitations
- too much compromises
To solve
- Good and motivated staff
Inspirations
• Doing Business surveys (World Bank)
• World Competitiveness Yearbook (IMD)
• Global Competitiveness Report (World
Economic Forum)
• Better regulation (EU – NL, UK, DK, DE)
• Reducing red tape (OECD – USA, NZ, AUS …)
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Summary for policy makers
• Clear vision needed + a champion within
the government
• Consultations and stable partnership
• Long term commitment
• Measurement – strategy – organisational
guarantee (monitoring, pressure)
• Human resources