Open letter to companies to the Government: "We want measures". Cgia: craftsmanship collapses, in the month lost 7 billion

2020-04-04T07:45:39.677Z

"The unprecedented crisis that our country and a large part of the whole world are experiencing forces everyone to develop survival ideas. We do business". Thus began the open letter to the Prime Minister, Mise and Mes which occupies an entire paid notice page of the 'Corriere della Sera' signed by over 50 companies and signed by Federdistribuzione and Confimprese. These are "Proposals to deal with the emergency" coronavirus - as the title of the joint initiative states - by the "excluded from the Cura Italia decree". "We don't ask for rain money. We ask for measures," affirm the signatory non-food retail companies (from Coin to Calzedonia, passing through Ovs, Pinko, Kiko, Rinascente, Carpisa, Douglas and Alcott to name just a few), who remember how traits of a sector that "alone represents 10 billion in turnover, one million workers, almost 5 billion in contributions paid every year. Over 20 billion in VAT. At least 15 billion in rents. Categories" considered less affected than others - they write - when in reality we are more ". Hence the 10 proposals made: six for the emergency phase and four for the recovery phase. The first is the request to be" assimilated to the supply chains in crisis "that appear in the Cura Italia decree. And then the blocking of payment obligations; the contractual review of rents, even after opening; the postponement of VAT payment at least until September; the decriminalization of tax offenses for regular declarations but missed payments; the immediate introduction of liquidity. For the recovery, the proposals are: contribution relief of 50% until 2021; increased tax deductions on investments and marketing costs; facilitation of consumer credit; tax deductions and vouchers in favor of individuals for the purchase of goods and services of companies operating in the sectors in crisis. Cgia, craftsmanship collapses, lost 7 billion in a month At least 7 billion euros. The estimate of the loss of turnover that artisan businesses will suffer in this closing month due to the Coronavirus (from March 12 to April 13, 2020) amounts to a lot. To make the accounts was the CGIA Studies Office. The sectors most affected are also the most representative of the whole sector: construction, for example, will see a drop in turnover of 3.2 billion (construction, paint, building finishers, etc.) and manufacturing of 2.8 billion ( metalworking, wood, chemical, plastic, textile-clothing, footwear, etc.) and personal services of 650 million euros (hairdressers, beauticians, shoemakers, etc.). “Craftsmanship is at risk of becoming extinct, or almost, especially in small towns and in peripheral countries, many activities - reports the coordinator of the Studies Office Paolo Zabeo - in the face of the cancellation of collections, unsustainable rents and excessive tax burden, they will not bear the blow and will be forced to close. If the situation does not improve by the end of next May, it is likely that by this year the total number of artisan companies will drop by at least 300 thousand units: that is to say that 25 percent of the artisan companies present in Italy will close their doors. "