“The government of change has not produced one maneuver of real change, but we all understand that the dividend sought is the electoral one, not the growth one”. This is the accusation launched by Carlo Bonomi, president of Assolombarda, during his speech at the assembly of the Association.
"We do not yet know the details of the budget law but we have already paid a high price for the ways in which the government has come to update the Def, and then modify it, without convincing the markets and Europe", he added.
Words to which the Minister of Economy replied closely, Giovanni Tria, affirming from the same stage of Assolombarda that "the expansive strategy" at the basis of the Government maneuver "is certainly not reckless: our choices have matured within a framework of responsibility and in no way endanger the stability of public finances".
Ma Bonomi he was equally harsh on the relationship between the state and companies: “We cannot continue to use legitimate businesses as state ATMs, given that the VAT credits accrued are recognized to us after years - he said - No to a state that calls us 'takers' and that after years of promises still not paying us more than 40 billion".
The number one of Assolombarda underlined that “with electronic invoicing mandatory the State will obtain every single data in real time in order to break down VAT avoidance and evasion", therefore at this point, says Bonomi, "all other measures previously taken for the same purpose they must fail, the mandatory quarterly or half-yearly communications, the split payment, the reverse charge".
Bonomi also said “no to a State that believes it can wrest 35 concession contracts. The tragic story of the Morandi Bridge sees the responsibilities of the technical and safety supervision of the public grantor being forgotten too casually, the need for responsibilities to be ascertained with administrative and criminal investigations ignored, the current prescription that the construction of the new work must be done with a tender of European evidence and not with direct assignment", added Bonomi, specifying however that "the story of the Morandi Bridge has also shown that, when it commits them, the company must admit its mistakes".
With regard to the shops closed on Sunday, according to Bonomi it is a measure that "violates the freedom of millions of consumers, reduces consumption and work, undermines the possibility that precisely the families in which two members work can reconcile work times with consumption choices".
Finally, Bonomi fired at zero on the hypothesis of a new nationalization of Alitalia by asking for a referendum among the Italians: "We are tired of paying for Alitalia" which never recovers.
