The high cost of bureaucracy for small and medium enterprises

The bureaucracy despite some scissors (such as the development decree) continues to be a burden for Italian companies. Specifically, the Paying Taxes report, prepared by the World Bank in collaboration with PWC, both in the 2011 and in 2012 that found that Italian companies (not only the medium and small) use 285 hours a year because of the bureaucracy, especially because of taxes on labor that require 214 hours.

This result puts us in 127th place in the world, behind Antigua and Serbia.

Returning to small and medium-sized enterprises also Cgia Mestre wanted to calculate the weight of bureaucracy for businesses with fewer than 250 employees, discovering that each undergoes an annual burden of € 5,269. Now we do not know if the parameters of the Cgia and those of the Inland Revenue have been the same, however we simply record that, however you put the weight in terms of time and costs for SMEs is far lower and at least not decrease.

The inefficiency of public administration, says the secretary of Cgia, Giuseppe Bortolussi, "it breaks down more firmly on small and micro enterprises than on medium to large." This is because these are more structured and can deal with less difficulty and with lower costs, tax formalities required by Italian law.

Although this does not move one iota the heart of the matter in too much bureaucracy that sees a limit to the business activity in general and a disincentive to attract foreign investment.

Returning to the data, also Cgia, agrees with the fact that the sector with the greatest impact on the timing and budgets of SMEs is that of Labour and Social Security. The farm payrolls, communications related to hiring or termination of employment, complaints of employee compensation and benefits data to do a monthly basis and the amount of remuneration and self-assessments to account for an average € 2,270 per firm (43.1% of total).

778 EUR to business (14.8% of the total) is instead the cost to business of bureaucracy related to environmental issues, which includes among the items greater than "cost" permissions for the discharge of waste water, the documentation for the impact sound, the record keeping of waste and permits for emissions into the atmosphere. Other 629 euro (11.9% of the total) are explicable by the administrative costs that each company has to bear to deal with the administration on tax matters (eg tax withholding agents, periodic press releases and annual reports etc).

Among other administrative costs Cgia the identified those relating to privacy which account for € 500 per firm (9.5%), those for safety at work (351 € per enterprise, 6.7%), those for the prevention fires (€ 322; 6.1%), those relating to contracts (€ 277; 5.3%), and those related to the protection of the landscape and cultural assets (€ 142; 2.7%).

 

05/02/2012

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Source:

Italian version of CercaGeometra.it

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