Our survey in the SME Outlook – ninth in a row and conducted between 26 January and 6 February 2007 – focused not only on the business situation of SMEs, but also on their response to the certain actions in connection with tax rates and levies that the government has initiated lately. We can also compare the recent results with the data from SME Outlook July 2006, in order to compare the intended and the actual outcome of the effects of government actions on the SME sector.