Sardinia, small business bills "explode": "Almost 425 million euros more than in 2021"
Confartigianato Imprese: "We need immediate interventions or there is a risk of a massacre of companies"Featured bills (Ansa)
“ The bills of micro and small businesses in Sardinia are exploding ”. This was reported by Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna , which estimates an increase of around 425 million euros more in one year .
"But if no action is taken, the higher costs could reach 850 million ", underlines the president Maria Amelia Lai .
According to Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, the sectors most affected are those of glass, ceramics, cement, paper, metallurgy, chemistry, textiles, rubber and plastic and food.
CLOSURE RISK - “The situation - highlights Lai - is unsustainable and the time to act is just a few weeks. Our companies risk an energy lockdown and many entrepreneurs are thinking of closing. Immediate and equally rapid structural reforms are needed to bring energy prices back under control and avert a massacre of companies and an unprecedented crisis ”.
ESTIMATES - The analysis carried out by the Research Department of the Artisan Association has deepened the impact of the crisis
energy and the surge in gas prices on production activities, revealing how from September 2021 to today the micro and small enterprises of Sardinia have paid almost half a billion euros more for electricity than the previous year.
“An unprecedented impact on small island production activities that risks further magnification if electricity prices do not decrease in the next four months”.
RUN FOR SHELTERS - According to President Lai, "the measures already implemented by this Executive must be confirmed and strengthened immediately: elimination of general system charges for electricity and gas, extension of the tax credit on electricity and gas costs for non-energy-intensive companies and not gasivores ".
"In addition - continues the President of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna - a European ceiling must be set on the price of gas and the revenue calculated on extra-profits must be recovered, in order not to aggravate the situation of the public budget, and a gesture of responsibility and solidarity of energy companies is needed to safeguarding the entire national production system ". “Investments in renewable energies and in the diversification of supply sources must also be supported - he points out - in particular to create Energy Communities and to increase self-production”.
(Unioneonline / lf)