The government has closed the delicate game on the budget maneuver linked to the distribution of the 8 billion destined to reduce the tax burden, coming close to the end of the year. An objective achieved, among the many that the premier attributed to himself in the press conference before Christmas.
Too bad that a crucial chapter is left out, so crucial that it saved, with public loan guarantees, the country from disaster in 2020 by ensuring that companies continued to have liquidity despite the lockdowns.
Two years later, the pandemic is still there, even if this time it is not the closures that bring repercussions on the productive fabric (cancellations of reservations, flights, orders for lunches and dinners, but also individuals who cannot go to work). the high number of people who ended up in quarantine.
The end of the moratoriums, mine from 25 billion on companies
The budget law in the approved version kept the plant thought at the end of the summer, when it was believed that the vaccines would accompany the country out of the emergency. So by the end of December the end of the moratoriums for companies has been foreseen: 56 billion are still standing, of which 43 billion for companies.
For guaranteed loans, in particular those covered by the Fund for SMEs, a reduction of guarantees from 90 to 80% is foreseen from January for loans destined for liquidity within the 30 thousand euro mark. And the introduction of a commission to be paid for all guarantees.