110% bonus, beautiful and incomprehensible. Thus, the bureaucratic complication becomes business. At Fq MillenniuM on kiosks

“But have you tried reading it?” The first time I got lost in the middle. It is an inextricable skein of references to other standards. And if that Maurizio PostcardAn adviser to the national order of accountants, he is used to the niceties of bureaucracy by profession. But when he found himself faced with the two articles of the relaunch decree on the 110% super bonus for energy efficiency interventions in buildings, he opened his eyes, before rubbing them to ward off fatigue. “Notwithstanding the provisions of article 14, paragraphs 2-ter, 2-sexies and 3.1, and article 16, paragraphs 1-quinquies” and so on for a few lines. Then a sentence in Italian, but immediately after new references on references to other regulations. His outburst is picked up by FQ MillenniuM, the monthly magazine run by Peter gomez, on newsstands from Saturday October 10 with an issue dedicated to the never-defeated monster of the Italian bureaucracy, also in view of the arrival of 209 billion Recovery Fund.

However, the super bonus interests many people who practically free they can reform the house with improvements in consumption. “A regulation that involves such a wide audience of citizens had to be written in Italian, so that anyone could understand it,” he stresses. Giuseppe Cappochin, president of the national order of architects. But no. But beyond the language difficulties, there is more. Because the matter, already complicated from a technical point of view, has become very complicated due to what is at stake for the Government and Parliament in the way of obtaining the maximum deduction. From the two articles of law dedicated to the superbono, followed by the usual ministerial decrees of execution, a copious production of another paper is being born, to explain its meaning. And a new business for professionals and consultants, necessary to navigate the regulatory jungle.

“The Big Four Storm the Super Bond Market”, headlined in mid-September The sun 24 hours referring to the four giants of consulting Deloitte, Pwc, Ernst & Young me Kpmg. But even smaller companies have equipped themselves to do business in a business that adds the business of bureaucratic complication: consulenze110.it and ecobonus110.com are just two of the sites that are born together with the approval of the law, with the Promise of a team of professionals specialized in tax deductions and turnkey projects at the customer’s disposal. What worries the architect Cappochin: “We do not like that different finance companies offer turnkey projects. The architect must be an independent figure who evaluates the viability of the operation, it must be paid by the client, not by a company that makes money from the work.

In this way, teams of experts must resolve each practical situation, with the risk that the citizen will spend money on feasibility studies that have ended badly and from which they cannot deduce anything. But woe to Cappochin that all this bureaucratic complication alone is a business opportunity for architects. “In our work we now dedicate 20% of the time to the project and 80% to the paperwork,” he complains. “For us, bureaucracy is a cost, certainly not a source of income.”

A similar complaint comes from the postal accountant. They don’t even tell you that your colleagues take advantage of the illegibility of the superbond articles and, in general, the tangle of typically Italian tax rules: “It’s a cliché,” he says. “There are many compliances with very low added value that for us are just a source of frustration. It is as if we have become employees of the financial administration who work for free. According to Postal, the preloaded statement, one of the most publicized Italian attempts at bureaucratic simplification, turned out to be a “bluff”: “Of the 21.2 million out of 730 totals in 2019, 18 million were still transmitted through professionals and, above all, Cafes.”

Cafes, patronage, but also 9,000 paperwork management companies – continues the FQ MillenniuM survey – are the other protagonists of the bureaucratic complication business. If that’s the case for Italians, imagine it for foreigners. For them, a public desk or an online site would be sufficient to provide clear and precise instructions organically. But no, there is no trace. “What should and could be simple is not,” says Livio Neri, a lawyer at the Milanese law and labor law firm. “For this reason, an immigrant is forced to turn to various agencies, lawyers or associations that earn money.”

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