We are suffocated by a bad bureaucracy that takes away from the small entrepreneurs more and more time and resources to compile an overwhelming number of obligations, certificates and to honor a multitude of deadlines disseminated throughout all 12 months: this criticality costs the Italian SMEs system 31 billion of euros every year.
To say it is the Study Office of the CGIA that has taken over the data of the last survey carried out a few years ago by the Department of Public Function - Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
“A frightening figure - declares the coordinator of the CGIA Studies Office Paolo Zabeo - partly attributable to the malfunctioning of the public machine which is now becoming the main enemy of those who do business. More and more suffocated by stamps, papers and various forms, this daily Via Crucis costs each of these SMEs on average 7.000 euros per year ”.
On the same wavelength the opinion of the Secretary of the CGIA, Renato Mason:
"The time and costs of bureaucracy have become a pathology that negatively characterizes our country. It is no coincidence that many foreign operators do not invest in us because of the excessive redundancy of our bureaucratic system. Incommunicability, lack of transparency, legal uncertainty and overly burdensome obligations have generated a veil of mistrust between companies and the Public Administration that will not be easy to remove in a reasonably short time ".
And as the OECD has shown in the Economic Report on Italy (February 2017), the average labor productivity of our companies is higher in areas where public administration is more efficient. Furthermore, in this study it is shown that the inefficiency of the public sector produces higher economic costs, especially for small businesses.
We are a country where it is difficult to do business
Although we have gained 4 positions compared to the previous survey, the latest World Bank data (Doing Business 2018) tell us that among the 19 countries of the Euro Area, Italy is positioned at the 14 ° place of the general ranking on the ease of doing business .
We point out, in particular, that we are, however, in the last place of the ranking both as regards the cost of starting a business (13,7 per cent on per capita income), and the amount of costs necessary to recover credits in the case of a bankruptcy (22 per cent of the value of the debtor's guarantee). We place ourselves in the third last place both as regards the number of annual hours needed to pay taxes (238) and the number of days necessary to obtain a sentence following a commercial dispute (1.120 days, or a little more than 3 years)
We occupy the fourth last place, however, as regards the number of days that are necessary to obtain the permit for the construction of a shed (227,5 days, equal to 7,5 months), while we are in the sixth last place for as regards the expenses to be incurred in a commercial dispute (23,1 percent of the value of the goods).
The quality of Pa in the South is worrying
It is an equally ruthless classification that emerges from the latest survey conducted by the European Commission on the quality of the public administration at the territorial level. Compared to the 192 territories affected by the analysis carried out in the 2017, the main regions of central and southern Italy appear for 8 times in the rank of the worst 20, with Calabria ranking even at the 190 ° place.
The Public Administration Quality Index is the result of a mix of questions to citizens concerning the quality of public services, the impartiality with which they are assigned and corruption. Public services directly monitored at regional level are those with a more "territorial" value (education, health and safety), but the index takes into account, at the country level, also more general services, such as justice, so as to draw up also a national ranking.
The final result is an indicator that varies between 100, obtained from the Finnish region Åland (1 ° place), and zero that has "delivered" the black shirt to the Bulgarian region of Severozapaden. Although it is relegated to the 118 ° place at European level, Trentino Alto Adige (index equal to 41,4) is the most virtuous territorial reality of Italy, followed by two other regions of the Northeast: Emilia Romagna and Veneto (index equal to 39,4) that are placed respectively at the 127 ° and at the 128 ° place of the general ranking. Immediately below we find Lombardy (38,9) which is at 131 ° place and Friuli Venezia Giulia (38,7) which stands at the 133 ° step of the ranking drawn up by the European Commission.
As we said above, bad, especially the regions of the South where the most worrying performances are recorded. If Campania (index equal to 8,4) is at 186 ° place, Abruzzo (6,2) is at 189 ° and Calabria, the territory where the PA works worst among all our 20 regional realities, is even at 190 ° step of the general ranking, with an index of only 1,8 points.
NOTES: the European Quality of Government Index (EQI) - 2017
The European Quality of Government Index (EQI) is the result of a survey on corruption and governance at regional level in Europe, first conducted in 2010 and subsequently in 2013 and 2017. The survey methodology has changed in time and therefore, for a possible intertemporal comparison, it is necessary to start from the 2017 data and look at the reconstruction carried out for the previous years.
The final quality index of the PA is the result of a mix of questions put to citizens concerning the quality of public services, the impartiality with which they are assigned and corruption. Specifically, the questions converge on three public services that have a more "territorial" value: education, health and public security; the final index, in addition to regional survey data, also takes into account other more general services (eg justice) including some indicators of the WGI given by the World Bank (national data).
The result of the index is a standardized figure with the average of all regions equal to zero; the result obtained by the region obtaining the highest score (highest quality of public services) is then set to 100 and to 0 that of the region obtaining the lowest score; in this way the scores of all the regions, including the Italian ones, are re-proportioned in a range from 0 to 100.
The edition of the EQI referring to the year 2017 (latest available) involved 192 European regions with a survey of almost 80 thousand respondents (citizens); it is the largest sub-national survey focused on the quality of public administration (in Italy the respondents were 8.400).
The questions posed to European citizens for the construction of the EQI 2017
QUALITY THEMES
- How do you rate the quality of public education in your area
- How do you evaluate the quality of the health system in your area
- How do you evaluate the quality of the police forces in your area?
IMPARTIALITY THEM
- Favoritism to some in public education (in its area)
- Favoritism to some in the health system (in its area)
- Favoritism to some with police forces (in its area)
- All treated equally in public education (in its area)
- All treated equally in the health system (in its area)
- All treated equally by police forces (in its area)
- All treated equally by the tax authorities (in its area)
THEME CORRUPTION
- Corruption is prevalent in public education (in its area)
- Corruption is prevalent in the health system (in its area)
- Corruption is prevalent among police forces (in its area)
- The population in my area must use some form of corruption to get some basic public services
- Corruption in my area is used to gain access to particular privileges
- The elections in its area are free of corruption
- In the last 12 months she or someone living in her family has been asked to pay bribes (by a public officer)
- In the last 12 months she or someone living in her family has paid bribes or offered gifts to someone from the PA