ROME. Sos due to the surge in inflation and the sharp rise in the price of raw materials and energy costs that “put businesses in serious difficulty, especially the small and medium-sized ones that make up the backbone of the Italian production system”. Appeal for further support actions for the productive fabric. The Sostegni e bills decree is “insufficient and incomplete”, according to Conflavoro Pmi and Confesercenti. Sos of companies due to the lack of a moratorium on loans to economic activities and the Covid fund for tourism. Meanwhile, the Movimprese report describes a patchy recovery in Italy. Among the cities, Rome records the best national entrepreneurial balance (+11,834 companies in 2021, 29,001 registrations against 17,167 terminations). «The current economic phase is expansive, but remains very complex. There are some encouraging data that induce a certain optimism-affirms Lorenzo Tagliavanti, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the capital-. In a year, however, not easy for the Italian economy due above all to the persistence of the health emergency but not only, Rome and Lazio show encouraging economic data. Rome boasts the best national entrepreneurial balance (+11,834 companies in 2021, 29,001 registrations compared to 17,167 terminations) and the third best national growth rate (+ 2.38%, after Naples and Sassari, definitely above the national average of + 1.42%) “.
Detection
Data that, adds Tagliavanti, “help Lazio to be the first Italian region both in terms of business growth (+ 2.16%) and in surplus: +14,201 in 2021 (37,618 registrations compared to 23,417 terminations) “. Therefore, «even in a general situation that must always be observed with great caution and attention, the Unioncamere / Infocamere survey shows a tenacious dynamism of the production fabric and a widespread ability of companies to adapt to new needs and changed conditions of the economic market. It is a priority to continue to adequately support the production sectors most affected by the pandemic, such as tourism and commerce, by strengthening institutional collaboration ”.
Gaps in the Dl Sostegni Ter
“The absence of the moratorium on loans to businesses and the extension of the Covid fund for tourism, an action that we have been asking for for months, pushes us to consider the new decree as a tool that does not help small and medium-sized enterprises”, says Roberto Capobianco, president of Conflavoro Pmi which, in reference to the Dl Sostegni e bills approved yesterday by the CDM, asks to continue not to lower the attention towards companies. «The discounted access to the FIS (Salary Integration Fund) – he continues – is not an efficient method as it is tied to a slow and cumbersome bureaucracy. From the point of view of refreshments and the stop to taxes on recently closed activities, we continue to reiterate the need for the widest possible involvement of the damaged sectors, but also of the related supply chains, often in the background in this type of intervention “. And “as far as energy costs are concerned, no buffer measures are needed, but an intervention that structurally resolves the serious increases for businesses and families, while working on new international agreements capable of breaking the chain of uncontrolled increases”, he underlines Capobianco.
Deep crisis
“The support decided by the government for businesses is a recognition of the profound crisis affecting economic activities, especially in the sectors of commerce and tourism. But the resources deployed risk not being sufficient, and more needs to be done on work and credit ”, observes Patrizia De Luise, president of Confesercenti. «One million subjects – he highlights – is called by the executive to take on the organizational burden of checking the vaccination pass. Entrepreneurs, as always up to now, will do their part to protect everyone’s health, but it would be better to focus on random checks and eliminate the penalties for companies in the event of a customer without a green pass. The danger for physical stores is an even stronger imbalance to the advantage of online commerce ». And «also on the front of the refreshment points, the resources appear insufficient. The use of sector codes is certainly a step forward compared to the selection with specific Ateco, even if the risk of new exclusions must be avoided. The rules on the tax credit for rents and relief for inventories are well and the cuts in energy costs are also satisfactory. Still no answer on the moratorium on bank debts and tax deadlines ». Therefore “we express deep disappointment for the interventions on the social safety nets front and for the failure to extend the Covid fund”.
Occupation at risk
«Only in the sectors of hospitality, catering, travel organization and trade – underlines De Luise – 50 thousand economic activities and 250 thousand workers are at risk. A considerable number that adds to the thousands of companies forced to close their doors forever since the beginning of the pandemic. We ask the government and Parliament to support more vigorously the activities in passing through this new critical phase. Every closed company and every employee without a job is a defeat for everyone ».