minister received requests from 60 companies to dismiss their entire staff. supporters of the tax strike say they can't do business as usual. >> my biggest problem, my biggest fear nowadays is not to be able to pay salaries to my staff. >> my number one problem are the ministers, the government that is not doing their job, so they should leave. >> uncertainty is killing this country. we don't know what's next. >> reporter: he runs a chain of sporting good stores. with banks severely restricting access to dollars, importing goods is nearly impossible. . >> we let go all the recently joined staff members which joined for less than three months. we basically let them all go of. >> reporter: how many? >> 25 to 30. on top of that, we had to decrease 25% salaries to everyone in the company. from our ceo down the hierarchy. >> reporter: it's not so much a crunch as a crash. >> if we continue to ignore the