Together with the Democratic Party’s representative Lee Nak-yeon, street vendors also announced that they would provide the 4th disaster support fund. On the 27th, CEO Lee attended the’Small Business On-Offline Conversation’ held at Gimhae Small Business Business Center hosted by Gyeongnam Maeil and said, “40,000 street vendors nationwide and special employment types or culture and arts fields that have been excluded from support so far are also eligible for this support. It is included in.” He explained, “Because we couldn’t register as a business, we thought that it was wrong that street vendors were excluded from the application, so we strongly insisted that we should include it in the application.
The 4th disaster support fund is provided in the name of support for self-employed persons and small business owners affected by Corona 19. However, as Lee said, most of the street vendors are doing business without even registering as a business. It is difficult to calculate the damage of Corona 19 because it is mainly in cash transactions and does not report income. Rarely do you even pay taxes.
For this reason, the ruling party and the government excluded street vendors from compensation for losses for self-employed and small business owners who are promoting legislation. The amendment to the Small Business Support Act, initiated by Democratic Party lawmaker Gap-seok Song on the 26th through consultation with the government, in principle set the target of compensation for losses for self-employed persons and small business owners as small business owners, and has exceptionally deliberated and compensated SMEs. To be recognized as a small business by law, you must register as a business.
The bill also excluded special employment workers, such as golf caddies, study paper teachers, insurance agents, etc., although self-employed, but excluded from compensation. On the other hand, CEO Lee announced a policy to include specially-employed workers in the 4th disaster subsidy.
The controversy is likely to grow even more as the party government promotes support or compensation for Corona 19 damage on an arbitrary basis at that time without a principle. Already, small business owners are protesting against the loss compensation bill, saying, “Why are even small and medium-sized businesses compensated.” In a telephone conversation with the company, Yoon-sik Choi, chairman of the Corona Damage Small Business Countermeasures, said, “The original purpose of introducing the loss compensation system was to compensate for the damages of small business owners’ business restrictions caused by the Corona 19 incident, and suddenly, small and medium-sized businesses were included.”
Isn’t it necessary that the Democratic Party is promoting populism without principle with the by-election of Seoul and Busan mayors in April and the next presidential election in mind? With national finances getting worse and worse.
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