Number of employees in the sphere of small and medium business is 46.3 thousand people or 24% of the total number of employees in the municipal economy.
Municipal support system established in the city plays an important role in the development of small and medium business.
A subprogram 11 “Development of small and medium business” of the municipal program “Improving effectiveness of local self-government bodies in Nizhny Tagil till 2020” approved by the decree of the Municipal Administration of December 11, 2013, No. 2944 is being implemented.
Since 1999, Nizhny Tagil has a municipal fund for small business support. All conditions have been created in it for providing a wide range of services to small and medium business entities: Occupational Safety Centres, the Information and Consulting Centre, the centralized accounting department, “hotline”.
The Centre for consultations and approvals for small and medium business entities continues to develop. The Internet-portal of small and medium-sized business dengimono.ru was created.
In the city there are non-profit organizations and public associations of entrepreneurs, such as:
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nizhny Tagil;
- non-profit partnership “Entrepreneur’s House”;
- Nizhny Tagil Guild of Realtors;
- Nizhny Tagil branch of the non-commercial partnership self-regulatory organization“Union of the construction industry of Sverdlovsk oblast”;
- Gornozavodsky branch of the public organization “Union of motor transport entrepreneurs of Sverdlovsk oblast”;
- Non-commercial partnership “Legal Assistance”;
- Nizhny Tagil local branch of the All-Russian public organization of small and medium business “OPORA OF RUSSIA”
The Council for the Development of Small and Medium Business is working actively.