The Report of Guarantor of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises underlines the difficult situation that the companies in question are facing, but also the positive signals coming from business networks, internationalization and the diffusion of electronic commerce.
This Report examined 71 of the most significant measures launched in 2012 by the Government and Parliament in favor of micro, small and medium enterprises. The most critical aspect remains that of the implementation times of the measures supporting which often, in order to become operational, require the issuing of regulations which lengthen the times beyond measure. In this regard, the story of the payments of the public administration's debts is emblematic, as already underlined in a previous article. Another critical element on which the Report focuses is represented by lack of a real "shock therapy" in the field of simplifications. In this case, several measures are proposed to eliminate ineffective bureaucratic steps. Among the priorities, the tax breaks for business networks for investment and innovation, the expansion of compensation between receivables and payables from the tax authorities, the reduction of the cost of energy for small business consortia. Finally, to support companies that need to invest, a facilitated instrument is proposed for the purchase or leasing of machine tools and production.
In particular, the Report and the annexes thereto underline the need to a more efficient European policy, capable of supporting the demand for consumer goods, since even the measures introduced to deal with emergencies and create more favorable environments by enhancing the capabilities of companies have hardly produced significant effects when left to themselves, see also in the face of the many application delays. In this perspective, if the flywheel of internal demand is not activated as soon as possible, entrepreneurial impoverishment risks becoming difficult to recover since exports alone cannot drive the entire economic systemnor guarantee the necessary prospects for the development of the internal market. And this danger can only be averted when the EU undertakes timely and decisive policies to support productive activities, employment and economic growth.
