2.7.3Political Barriers
 A possible issue for many Greek SME is the limitation in capital access. It is already researched that a low level of financial resources and a limited power that SMEs have, makes a further limitation in their ability to internationalize (Aspelund and Butsko, 2010). This limitation in financial access also revealed due to the Global economic crisis.Many Small and Medium businesses after hopeless trials in access to credit, tried to discover new sources of finance like tomobilize some of their reserves, self-finance, and factoring method. around the globe (OECD,2009). Banks in Greece also made a limitation in the loans for Small SME andone of the major accesses in funding was only by some European development programs, where many SMEs found it inevitable to join in this kind of programs. A major issue that differentiates SMEs from other enterprises, is the fact that the production costs are significantly higher with basic production options, and this led to a result more bank loans to reach a competitive advantage over other multinationals in the production scale.This basic barrier for many Greek SMEs isthe major difficulty in capital access from banks. Fromempirical research,the result was a not quite positive from Greek SMEs and banking sector and as an outcome there would not be a possible boost in their company’s development. (Hyz,2022) Also, an impression in public, apart from the financial difficulties that many SMEs face, is the fact of many taxationsin corporate environment. Value added Tax and Corporate tax is a major barrier for Greek companies.Precisely, corporate income tax rate in 2018 was 29%, eventually came into a reduction to 24% in 2020, during the pandemic. However, there was a great contribution of several measures to have a governmental support during the pandemic with discount on payments and loans for businesses and a suspension in tax and loan payments. (OECD,2020) Many scholars have considered low taxation to stimulate business activity in a region by virtue of lower expenditures, whereas high taxation suspends economic activity (Domański 2003; Jürgens and Krzywdzinski 2009). 
Micro, Medium and Emerging Enterprises (SMEs) are the most low-profit and most demanded businesses in Greece. The number of SMEs in Greece is about 10% of all businesses, and the number of SMEs in the country is about 1,5% of all businesses. The number of SMEs in Greece is about 1,5% of all businesses, and the number of SMEs in the country is about 1,5% of all businesses.