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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 04 July 2020 With its 140 billion euro of orders per year, equal to about 8 percent of the national GDP, the Italian Public Administration continues to be the main customer of an important part of our local companies. Although timely payments remain an unresolved issue. 

In absolute terms, there are about one million companies working for state bodies. The issue was highlighted by the coordinator of the Cgia Studies Office Paolo Zabeo .

The Mestre Craftsmen Association also raises a big question: "After the sentence of conviction issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union last January - declares the secretary of the Cgia Renato Mason - we run the risk of paying a maximum fine of 2 billion euros ?".

The doubt emerged as some authoritative experts claimed that the systematic delays in payments made by our PA could trigger a European sanction such as that received for milk quotas which, so far, has cost us about 2 billion euros.

In the ruling issued on 28 January 2020, the European Court of Justice , meeting in the Grand Section, found that Italy had violated Directive 2011/7 / EU, relating to the fight against late payment in commercial transactions , since our country has not ensured that its public administrations, when they are debtors in the context of such transactions, actually respect payment terms not exceeding 30 or 60 calendar days, established by the directive.

"Although Eurostat data say that current trade payables have increased steadily over the past 4 years, reaching 50 billion euros in 2019 - points out Zabeo - delays in payments by our PA continue to be a widespread malpractice in the And in light of the fact that almost half of these missed payments are attributable to healthcare, why not resort to the new version of MES 2, also to liquidate the suppliers of our hospital companies? ".

"The most inadmissible thing of this whole affair - continues the CGIA - is that nobody is able to affirm exactly how much the commercial debt of our PA sums up. Although for some years the companies that work for the PA have been obliged to issue electronic invoicing. We also remind you that the advent of e-invoicing should have eliminated another major problem that besets the suppliers of public bodies: namely split payment .

"Our PA - concludes Renato Mason - not only pays with often unjustifiable delays, but when it does it no longer pays VAT to its supplier. Therefore, the companies that work for the state also discount the non-collection of the tax which, although representing a lot of turnover, allowed the companies to have more liquidity to face current payments. Likewise, with the introduction of split payment, suppliers find themselves on VAT credit, as the value added tax they pay when making purchases of goods and services is no longer offset by that collected on active invoices. Paradoxically, with a dimension of important VAT credits, many companies indirectly finance the state ".