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Refreshments, so the rigid parameters on turnover create the new “exodus”

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There is Lorenzo, who opened the VAT number at the end of 2018 to obtain the bank loan but finished the renovation and hosted the first client of his Bed and Breakfast in Naples only in June 2019. There is Maria, who at March 2019 he decided to transform his Milan bar into a bistro with an investment of 100 thousand euros and six months of work in the restaurant before reopening in October of that year. And there is Giampiero, who has three restaurants in Florence, but brought them together under a single company, which had a turnover of 10.2 million euros.

The names are fictional. Bad stories are true, tell us by the readers of this newspaper. And they have one thing in common. The three small entrepreneurs lost between 50 and 75% of their turnover in 2020, but they did not get a euro: neither of “refreshments”, as the Conte-2 government called non-repayable aid, nor of “support” , in the new name of the Draghi government.

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The calculation criteria and their defect

The aid calculation criteria have changed, and they no longer look at the month of April 2020 only, now extending to the whole year. But their original flaw has not disappeared: considering the real economy of small businesses as a rigid world, all the same, faithfully photographed by the comparison between the pre-crisis turnover and that invested by the pandemic.

The real world, on the other hand, is articulated, populated by events that are all different from each other. The turnover of 2019, which the strict ministerial parameters consider the touchstone for measuring “normal” activity and comparing it with that in crisis from Covid, is a number subject to infinite variables. And, when it crosses a rigid mechanism such as the one that has governed state aid up to now, it risks penalizing more precisely those who have decided to bet on their business. At the wrong time.

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Finding an index that is tailored to each individual case is complicated, of course. But there is another decree scheduled for the next few weeks, financed by a new deficit. It is the right opportunity, indeed the last, to avoid creating the new category of “exodus from refreshments”. And to really put that “equalizationWhich the parties have been talking about all the time. But that has not been seen so far.

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