Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Online registration option to be rolled out to SMEs


8 July 2014

The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft will introduce an online registration platform for Cambodia’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) this year.

Secretary of state at the ministry said the new software for web registration was built in partnership with the International Finance Corporation. A three-month pilot project to teach businesses how to use it will commence later this year. He also said SMEs with start-up capital of $3,000 or more would be able to register using the new process, which will take businesses just two to three days to complete.

According to a 2011 government survey, only about 3.5% of the 505,000 SMEs in Cambodia were registered with the government. Online registration was one of many reforms being introduced for SMEs, to ensure they were competitive with ASEAN economic integration looming in 2015.

The fee for online registration has yet to be confirmed, but traditionally registration fees have varied depending on a company’s start-up capital, with the smallest businesses having to pay $13 to register.

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