“In what village am I lost?” the land surveyor K wonders at some point in Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle.
The same question arises nowadays in the minds of Italian entrepreneurs who, having to face the labyrinthine bureaucratic and fiscal system of our country, find themselves caught in a vise of infernal laws, obstacles, an overall tax burden on legal entities (starting with the perverse application of IRAP) which is no longer sustainable, not to mention suspects of evasion and impropriety; a question that gets two demeaning answers: a sense of humiliation of the “vocation” of the entrepreneur and the decision to run away, to transfer its registered office and production where the judicial and bureaucratic efficiency and the transparent, competitive and certainly not oppressive tax environment render more hospitable the economic environment in which to undertake an economic activity.
The border areas of Comasco, of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, of Varesotto and of Sondriese have for many years announced the phenomenon of company relocations abroad, primarily to the Ticino canton: entrepreneurs attracted by the smooth administrative procedures, by the reasonableness and proportionality of a tax system that does not go foraging in an abnormal and uncontrollable way on the political and administrative machinery of the state (it is enough to think of the common taxation for actual activity, of the tax division with regard to the profit coming from the commercial activities, of the rate of VAT of 7.6%), by the tax breaks and incentives for production plants that invest in highly innovative areas of expertise / technology, an environment that does not live on the presumption of the entrepreneur as an ugly, dirty and bad tax evader.
The country of Common sense that ipso facto becomes The Land of Plenty.
EasyBalkans Team