Businesses, Guidesi: ‘Lombardy is back to racing, the government does its part’

Tax breaks, ‘non-punitive’ laws and cuts in bureaucracy. Lombardy sounds the charge of recovery and is ready to make the government feel its breath on the neck to help businesses continue to grow. “The Lombard production system has once again become the economic engine of the country. As the Lombardy Region we have put in place everything we could both in economic terms and also innovative tools, such as the capitalization of SMEs and support for the new openings of VAT numbers. Now on debt moratoriums, on tax compliance, the government needs to do its part as it has done in recent months “, explains Guido Guidesi Lombard councilor for economic development to Adnkronos. “I ask the executive to trust our companies by facilitating them in initiatives, reducing authorizing times and checking posts, in compliance with the scheduling of the economic plan of those who invest and those who offer work because the ingenuity of entrepreneurs cannot be stopped by bureaucracy or by people who are not up to date with respect to the new production processes of circular economy, sustainability, the transfer of goods “, underlines the 42-year-old member of the Northern League.” I ask you to listen to companies because they are the ones who produce work and we must, together with the government, break down hatred towards those who produce and those who employ; a hatred that has led to welfare and that risks leading young people, not to dynamism, but to ‘divanism’; an error not to be made because it would be difficult to recover in the short term . Instead, we need flexibility, space for ideas, merit and support for those who want to risk “. ‘To be more attractive we must make mianti for investors’ “It is necessary to encourage second-level bargaining, to completely tax the productivity bonuses and to favor corporate welfare. The government thinks of rewarding with tax breaks those who do this, that is 99% of Lombard entrepreneurs who live the company in the family with their employees. If you are not able to do it in Rome, due to endless consultation tables, you can pass skills and resources to the regions and we will take care of it “, underlines Guidesi, proud of the strength of the production system put to the test by Covid.” We from the data we already run. We need the pandemic to stop attacking us in order to make all the activities that depend on the influx of customers work to the maximum, the much-affected service sector, for example. We have shown that the civic sense of people and their responsibility, with the excellent organizational machine, can lead to very high numbers of vaccinations “. In Lombardy” we have only one case of company ownership that has closed, treating employees disrespectfully without following the procedures. Let’s not make a negative example a foregone and generalized fact “, clearly says the councilor for economic development, who is opposed to a ‘black list’ for those who decide not to produce in Italy anymore.” To be more attractive to new investors, which mean new businesses and new jobs, do we have to make further sanctioning or rewarding laws against those who have been here for years and have many people from Lombardy work? In my opinion, we must take the second path, also because with laws that are only and exclusively sanctioning those who would like to come and create work are removed. “‘Investing in school and training, the job of banks is to give credit’. immediate. “Lombardy Region manages to have fast payment times – explains Guidesi -, I don’t understand why others shouldn’t have the same speed. To banks, especially following the introduction of the instrument of capitalization of SMEs, which we have put in place, we do not grant alibis “. Institutions” must give credit because it is their job. After the reform of cooperative credit all banks evaluate customers in the same way, but I believe that the proximity to the territory, the traditional human relationship with the customer, must remain. For this reason, the reform of the banking cooperatives was a sensational mistake as it has created evaluation approvals and sometimes territorial monopolies “. Money that could come with the Recovery fund and which must be spent well.” We must invest in school and training first of all. : training on the ITS model where companies influence training courses. Investing in infrastructures because we have so many areas not served and too many long-awaited works, in this field it is important not to forget the long-awaited digital connection network. Last but not least, a plan is urgently needed to avoid hydrogeological instability “, concludes Guido Guidesi, Lombardy Regional Councilor for Economic Development.