These include burdensome business registration requirements and tax codes that inhibit the creation of new businesses. For example, Venezuela's National Council of Commerce and Services has made it a priority to ease the legal, regulatory and tax burdens imposed on small business in both the formal and informal sectors. These analyses addressed consumer protection, price controls, the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, and several tax proposals. Government policies in these areas have a disproportionate impact on the smallest enterprises, pushing many into the informal sector. Prodem, together with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, established a specialized bank to serve the informal sector.
Few organizations engage in charitable activities.
The business groups surveyed agreed that they should be more active in charity work, but other than occasional disaster relief and Christmas events, few organize charity programs or actively encourage member firms to do so.