Rome, 20 November (Adnkronos) – “In the Budget Law of the Meloni Government, the structural problems that hinder small and medium-sized businesses are completely ignored. On the contrary, several risky options make life even more difficult for entrepreneurs. In the area of taxation, the Irpef rate reduction is a limited intervention and tax pressure will remain at the highest level in the last ten years, well above the European average. The 5% tax break for contract renewals has a completely acceptable aim but as it stands it is foreseen to create disparities: we will request the amendments we have reported to include a renewed national collective bargaining agreement in 2024 and exclude pirated contracts Article 26 is a serious mistake: limiting tax credit compensation risks affecting corporate liquidity.
“Regarding investments, after the disastrous management of the Transition Plan 5.0 – he continued – the government has decided to return to super and hyper-depreciation. There are two problems to overcome: limited allocation from a quantitative point of view and in terms of time, and ignoring tax credits risks increasing bureaucracy and narrowing the audience. We need a stable tool that can also be used by micro-enterprises, restoring tax credits and strengthening the supply of resources with at least a three-year breathing period. The amendments that we shared and reported together with other opposition forces point in this direction. Financing returning tax credits for one SEZ is an acceptable option, but the minimum threshold of 200 thousand euros does not include thousands of small businesses in the South. One of the amendments we reported would propose a reduction to 100 thousand, while the second amendment, proposed and reported together with other opposition forces, would propose expanding the single and simplified authorization planned for the whole of Italy today for Zes”.
“This maneuver ignores the problem of access to credit, while lending to SMEs continues to decline: the stock of bank credit for small businesses has fallen by more than 21% in three years. Answers are needed for the future operation of the Central Guarantee Fund for SMEs. The proposal put forward by the artisans’ association for a National Fund for small-scale credit is very interesting, we are ready to support it. We will continue to work in Parliament to correct a maneuver that, at present, does nothing to restart Italy and, on the contrary, will make investment, growth and doing business more difficult,” he concluded.
