“We have received all refreshments expected: beyond 32mila euro totals that will come to 45mila with the third tranche. It is something that had never happened in the past: to say that the government it hasn’t done anything I think unfair“. While from Milan to Rome small groups of restaurateurs protest against the closures compensated with aids defined as “ridiculous”, the actor and writer Jacopo Fo he describes a different picture from direct experience. Anti-contagion restrictions have stopped all courses in the presence of Free University of Alcatraz, the cultural association on the Umbrian hills that includes accommodations it’s a ristorante, and the activities of the Fo Rame theater company. E i non-repayable contributions calculated as a percentage of turnover lost during lockdown – e doubled for the month of November – they arrived punctually on the account, as indeed happened to about 3 million businesses whoseRevenue Agency he paid in total over 10 billion. Waiting for the fifth and final Ristori decree, expected in days.
“For Alcatraz hospitality and catering activities we have taken 14.640 euro, which will exceed the 20mila with the tranche for the month of December ”, explains Fo. “More 18.042 for the theater company, which will arrive at 25mila with the third tranche “. And the second, that put in place to support those who had to close in November, “came in automatic“, As well as to all the restaurants and other activities (including those“ in the field of acting ”, another Ateco code included in the list) that had already obtained the first round. “Plus we got two loans of 25 thousand euros (those guaranteed 100% by the state and to be returned in ten years, ed)“.
Sure, aids “can’t cover the losses“Because if you are closed” with that money you have to pay utilities and other costs that accumulate anyway. In our case, those of the structure internet but it has also yielded gods small takings, because we started offering some courses online. In addition, we continued to manage the portal People for planet, the activity of the non-profit organization The Nobel Prize for the Disabled, we held conferences on new eco-technologies and launched a new digital fair of ecological innovation with Ecofuturo… ”. In short, a glass half full also because, alongside the state contributions that undoubtedly helped to stay afloat, there was some extra income. Worse has gone to those who “find themselves in particular conditions, not foreseen by the regulations: a friend who bought one dance club and reopened it with a new name, he had no right to anything because formally the business has just started. The bureaucratic terms should be more flexible ”.
Refreshments aside, according to Fo the launch of the 110 out of the super-del sismabonus% to encourage energy efficiency and anti-seismic interventions: “Thanks to credit transfer to banks that law also allows to those who are unemployed or otherwise have no resources to enjoy the contribution without anticipating anything, thus having a safer home and save a salary a year in energy costs. The problem though is that people have to be inform of this chance: it is not enough to talk about it in the newspapers and on the radio or give information via the internet, because there is a share of the population that is out of the media, which does not go to the Revenue site: it does not trust. The government must explain what it is doing even to those who have not cultural means to orient yourself in the bureaucracy“. How to do? “In France to publicize start-up funding, they toured countries and cities orange minibuses that informed people. Let’s do something like this and maybe involve them on these issues too schools, otherwise we risk wasting a great opportunity ”.
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