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January 16, 2021 The direct aid granted so far by the Government to the economic activities involved in the pandemic crisis "have been completely insufficient" to alleviate the difficulties suffered by the entrepreneurs: in fact, only 29 billion have arrived from the Ristori DLs compared to 2020 turnover losses almost 423 billion euros.

The coverage rate therefore does not exceed about 7%: "a ridiculous incidence".

It is a study by the CGIA that takes stock of the impact of the Coronavirus crisis on the activities of the country's economic operators.



It is necessary to move from refreshments to reimbursements

It is clear that a change of course is necessary - the study shows -: refreshments must be replaced with reimbursements.

In other words, a public allocation is needed that almost totally compensates both the missed collections and the current expenses that they continue to incur.

The same thing must also be defined for the sectors which, although in business, are as if they were not.

We report, in particular, the commercial and artisanal businesses located in the so-called art cities that have suffered the collapse of foreign tourist presences and, in particular, the local non-scheduled public transport (taxi, bus operator and car rental with driver) that although in service have the vehicles stopped in the sheds or in the stands.



It is true that this additional current expenditure would contribute to increasing public debt, but it is equally true that if we do not save businesses and jobs, we do not lay the foundations to restart economic growth which remains the only possibility capable of reducing. in the next few years the amount of public debt that we have frightfully accumulated with this crisis.



The measures relating to the 29 billion received from companies

Net of the measures that were introduced to support liquidity and the effects of the postponement of some tax deadlines, in 2020 the Government made 29.1 billion euros available to companies.

The most important item was that of non-repayable grants which amounted to 11.3 billion euros.

Other interventions1 follow, which amount to 7.9 billion and the cancellation of the 2019 balance and the 2020 Irap advance which allowed for a relief of 3.9 billion.

Tax concessions for sanitization and lease payments allowed savings of € 5.1 billion, while the cancellation of the IMU and Tosap / Cosap guaranteed a reduction in local taxation of € 802 million.



292,000 micro-enterprises with 1.9 million employees at risk

According to the latest survey carried out by Istat - conducted on a sample of almost 1 million companies with over 12 million employees which, overall, represent almost 90 per cent of added value and about three quarters of the total employment of industrial and service companies - almost 292 thousand activities are in a situation of profound crisis.

Activities that employ almost 1.9 million people and produce an added value of nearly 63 billion euros.

The average number of employees per company in this cluster in difficulty is equal to 6.5.

Micro enterprises that, heavily affected by the health emergency, have not adopted any strategy to respond to the crisis and, consequently, are at risk of closure.

Also from this survey it emerges that the production sectors most involved in these 292 thousand activities are textiles, clothing, printing, furniture and construction.

In the service sector, on the other hand, the difficulties of catering, accommodation, car trade and other sectors such as retail trade, rental, travel, gaming and sport stand out.