ENTERPRISES, GOOD NEW FRINGE BENEFIT THRESHOLD BUT MORE PLURALISM IN MEETINGS WITH ASSOCIATIONS

Rome,Nov. 11, 2022 – “We are confident that, in the future, in the policies of confrontation put in place by the new government with businesses, there will also be democratic reminders of the plurality of the different Associations representing businesses, implementing discontinuity with the past, and a wide openness toward micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, which constitute the engine of Italy’s economy. Appreciable, meanwhile, is the raising to 3 thousand euros of the threshold for fringe benefits offered by companies to workers in the form of goods and services and to pay for household utilities.”

This is according to Salvatore Ronghi, director general of the Federation of Medium and Small Enterprises (FMPI).

“The first actions of the newly appointed Prime Minister Meloni are certainly going in this direction, with aid to businesses for high utility bills, their installment payments, the extension of tax credits, the cut in excise taxes on gasoline, and the increase in natural gas production, but much more needs to be done to support the world of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, which are waiting for a drastic reduction in taxation, starting with the reduction of the tax wedge,” adds Antonina Terranova, president of Fmpi.

The two FMPI leaders also expressed “closeness and solidarity with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the serious act of intimidation that took place in Bologna. ‘There continues to be a desire to foment a climate of violence by extreme leftist groups against a government legitimately elected by the citizens,’ Ronghi and Terranova stressed, hoping that those responsible will be condemned and punished severely.”