SME business owners to be exempt from lease payments for 3 months throughout Georgia
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has stated earlier today that 600 SMEs who have businesses in Tbilisi will not have to pay rent for three months. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The Georgian Prime Minister’s spokesman Irakli Chikovani has stated today that small and medium-size business owners (SMEs) who have leased municipality-owned areas for their business activities have been made exempt from lease payments for three months in all municipalities of Georgia.
The decision has been made in order to mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on the business.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has stated earlier today that 600 SMEs who have businesses in Tbilisi will not have to pay rent for three months.
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