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12、ESIGN: CORPORATE VISIONS, INC. 3 Dominican Republic Doing Business 2017 CONTENTS Introduction . 4 Starting a business . 17 Dealing with construction permits . 25 Getting electricity . 38 Registering property . 48 Getting credit . 61 Protecting minority investors . 67 Paying taxes . 75 Trading across

13、 borders . 82 Enforcing contracts . 89 Resolving insolvency . 96 Labor market regulation . 100 Distance to frontier and ease of doing business ranking . 106 Resources on the Doing Business website . 109 4 Dominican Republic Doing Business 2017 INTRODUCTION Doing Business sheds light on how easy or d

14、ifficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electric

15、ity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and labor market regulation. Doing Business 2017 presents the data for the labor market regulation indicators in an annex. The report does not pre

16、sent rankings of economies on labor market regulation indicators or include the topic in the aggregate distance to frontier score or ranking on the ease of doing business. In a series of annual reports Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of prop

17、erty rights that can be compared across 190 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time. The data set covers 48 economies in Sub- Saharan Africa, 32 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 25 in East Asia and the Pacific, 25 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 20 in the Middle East and North Afri

18、ca and 8 in South Asia, as well as 32 OECD high-income economies. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Dominican Republic. To allow useful comparison, it also provide

19、s data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2016 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period JanuaryDecember 2015). The Doing Business methodology has limitations. Other areas important to busine

20、sssuch as an economys proximity to large markets, the quality of its infrastructure services (other than those related to trading across borders and getting electricity), the security of property from theft and looting, the transparency of government procurement, macroeconomic conditions or the unde

21、rlying strength of institutionsare not directly studied by Doing Business. The indicators refer to a specific type of business, generally a local limited liability company operating in the largest business city. Because standard assumptions are used in the data collection, comparisons and benchmarks

22、 are valid across economies. The data not only highlight the extent of obstacles to doing business; they also help identify the source of those obstacles, supporting policy makers in designing regulatory reform. More information is available in the full report. Doing Business 2017 presents the indic

23、ators, analyzes their relationship with economic outcomes and presents business regulatory reforms. The data, along with information on ordering Doing Business 2017, are available on the Doing Business website at http:/www.doingbusiness.org. 5 Dominican Republic Doing Business 2017 CHANGES IN DOING

24、BUSINESS 2017 As part of a three-year update in methodology, Doing Business 2017 expands further by adding postfiling processes to the paying taxes indicator, including a gender component in three of the indicators and developing a new pilot indicator on selling to the government. Also, for the firs

25、t time this year Doing Business collects data on Somalia, bringing the total number of economies covered to 190. The paying taxes indicator is expanded this year to include postfiling processes those processes that occur after a firm complies with its regular tax obligations. These include tax refun

26、ds, tax audits and tax appeals. In particular, Doing Business measures the time it takes to get a value added tax (VAT) refund, deal with a simple mistake on a corporate tax return that can potentially trigger an audit and good practices with administrative appeals process. This years Doing Business

27、 report presents a gender dimension in four of the indicator sets: starting a business, registering property, enforcing contracts and labor market regulation. Three of these areas are included in the distance to frontier score and in the ease of doing business ranking, while the fourthlabor market r

28、egulationis not. Doing Business has traditionally assumed that the entrepreneurs or workers discussed in the case studies were men. This was incomplete by not reflecting correctly the Doing Business processes as applied to womenwhich in some economies may be different from the processes applied to m

29、en. Starting this year, Doing Business measures the starting a business process for two case scenarios: one where all entrepreneurs are men and one where all entrepreneurs are women. In economies where the processes are more onerous if the entrepreneur is a woman, Doing Business now counts the extra

30、 procedures applied to roughly half of the population that is female (for example, obtaining a husbands consent or gender-specific requirements for opening a personal bank account when starting a business). Within the registering property indicators, a gender component has been added to the quality

31、of land administration index. This component measures womens ability to use, own, and transfer property according to the law. Finally, within the enforcing contracts indicator set, economies will be scored on having equal evidentiary weight of womens testimony in court. Also for the first time this

32、year Doing Business collects data on Somalia, bringing the total number of economies covered to 190. For more details on the changes, see the “”Old and new factors covered in Doing Business” section in the Overview chapter starting on page 1 of the Doing Business 2017 report. For more details on the

33、 data and methodology, please see the “Data Notes” chapter starting on page 114 of the Doing Business 2017 report. For more details on the distance to frontier metric, please see the “Distance to frontier and ease of doing business ranking” chapter in this profile. 6 Dominican Republic Doing Busines

34、s 2017 THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT For policy makers trying to improve their economys regulatory environment for business, a good place to start is to find out how it compares with the regulatory environment in other economies. Doing Business provides an aggregate ranking on the ease of doing business

35、based on indicator sets that measure and benchmark regulations applying to domestic small to medium-size businesses through their life cycle. Economies are ranked from 1 to 190 by the ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business presents results for 2 aggregate measures: the distance to frontier s

36、core and the ease of doing business ranking. The ranking of economies is determined by sorting the aggregate distance to frontier scores, rounded to two decimals. An economys distance to frontier score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst performance and 100 the fronti

37、er. (See the chapter on the distance to frontier and ease of doing business). The ease of doing business ranking compares economies with one another; the distance to frontier score benchmarks economies with respect to regulatory best practice, showing the absolute distance to the best performance on

38、 each Doing Business indicator. When compared across years, the distance to frontier score shows how much the regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs in an economy has changed over time in absolute terms, while the ease of doing business ranking can show only how much the regulatory environme

39、nt has changed relative to that in other economies. The 10 topics included in the ranking in Doing Business 2017: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, en

40、forcing contracts and resolving insolvency. The labor market regulation indicators are not included in this years aggregate ease of doing business ranking, but the data are presented in the economy profile. ECONOMY OVERVIEW Region: Latin America - General Constitutive Assembly with its corresponding

41、 list of presence of Associates; - List of the distribution of each of the associates investment to the company and their corresponding amounts of corporate quotas; - Application Form for registration of Limited Liability Company, duly completed and signed by the authorized manager or agent (must at

42、tach original power of attorney, if applicable). - Association Partnership Agreement; - Receipt of payment of incorporation taxes; - Photocopies of identity card; - Copy of Business Name Registration issued by the National Office of Industrial Property (ONAPI). In December 2013, the Chamber of Comme

43、rce made company registration available online at http:/www.formalizate.gob.do/. This electronic method of registration is not yet widely used in practice, but it is available to business entrepreneurs in Santo Domingo. 5 days DOP 12,000 24 Dominican Republic Doing Business 2017 No. Procedure Time t

44、o complete Cost to complete Agency: Chamber of Commerce 5 File for the National Taxpayers Registry at the Internal Revenue Service (DGII) and apply for fiscal receipts According to Decree 25406, companies that render services or whose operations require the transfer of goods must issue receipts with a fiscal number (numero de comprobante fiscal). The application can be made online. Within 5 working days, the Internal Tax Directorate must analyze the inform