Ukrainian small and medium businesses face daily legal problems

Ukrainian small and medium businesses (SMEs) face systematic non-enforcement of obligations, illegal raiding of real property and business ownership, tax collection difficulties and other daily legal problems.

The evidence shows that the State does not only fail to provide adequate avenues of redress, it is also frequently complicit in those violations, according to an in-depth SMEs Justice Needs Survey conducted by the Project together with its partners. "33% of fraudulent registration of real property and business was considered to be conducted with the participation of law enforcement authorities. 47% of Ukrainian entrepreneurs consider it useless to even involve the justice services in the resolution of their companies' legal problems,” - mentioned Ivan Piatak, of Centre for Law and Democracy (CEDEM), during the presentation of the Survey.