--- title: Proposals to the Director General of Statistics Estonia. date: 2016-01-20T15:06:17Z modified: 2016-01-20T15:06:17Z permalink: "https://grow.ee/ettepanekud-statistikaameti-peadirektorile/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 4169 timestamp: 2016-01-20T15:06:17Z tags: - Accounting --- At the end of January, a meeting took place with the Director General of Statistics Estonia, where I presented ideas that you wanted to change in the collection of statistical data. I thank everyone who submitted their proposals. The main topic was the poor transmission of statistical data and, as a result, Statistics Estonia's future plans. It is highly likely that a penalty payment will be applied for failure to submit reports. The latter will certainly cause a headache for data submitters, especially regarding unreasonable deadlines and the information to be collected. Entrepreneurs often have no need to collect information that statistics require. The latter, in turn, increases the administrative burden on entrepreneurs and increases resentment among entrepreneurial people. While the Tax Board consulted with software manufacturers on how to import €1,000 invoices into the portal, Statistics Estonia is creating a new report without consulting with entrepreneurs or software manufacturers on how information can be obtained from the program. At this point, the head of Statistics Estonia emphasized that their goal is to obtain accounting data directly from the accounting program in the future, but this may not be a solution either, because many programs are complicatedly related to group units and the latter are not at all flexible enough to easily export something from there. Below are now the answers from Statistics Estonia. Ulvi Tallo