(Jamma) For the government, now, a new front is officially open. Still desperate for the resources needed to cancel the second installment of the IMU, Enrico Letta and Fabrizio Saccomanni are seriously risking a "gap" on the first installment, the one canceled in August. Yesterday the Court of Auditors established that public slot machine concessionaires will have to make a payment equal to 30% of the 2,5 billion euro fine imposed by the same accounting judiciary if they want to close the dispute.
The problem is that the Treasury had guaranteed that the amnesty would cost only 20%. In six out of ten concessionaires they had paid the amount due, allowing the State to collect 230 million of the 600 million billed by the government. Now the companies should increase the figure by paying another 10%. Only most of them don't want to and can't do it. Companies like Snai, for example, had to borrow money in order to join the amnesty. Sisal, Gamenet, Cogetech and Cirsa could also experience difficulties. The only one who immediately communicated that he wanted to close the dispute anyway, was Lottomatic. But his share is decidedly low: 30 million in all. The problem isn't just the dealerships. It is above all, as mentioned, by Letta and Saccomanni. The 600 million collected from the amnesty had been put to cover the cancellation of the first Imu installment. If that money is not collected, a parachute will be triggered for the accounts.
The decree canceling the first installment provided for one of those safeguard clauses of which the public accounts are now full. In this case, the hole will be covered with an increase in excise duties on petrol and IRES and IRAP tax advances on companies. The latter are also the same coverages that have been hypothesized for the second installment of the IMU. In short, the risk is that tax advances will jump to very high levels. Before deciding how to plug and plug the hole, the Treasury is waiting to know the reasons for the decision of the Court of Auditors. But the whole question is seen as an institutional snub, given that the 20% ali m quota of the amnesty has been included in a state law. In short, the front of the games is likely to heat up a lot. Yesterday Bplus, one of the concessionaires that did not adhere to the amnesty, also filed an appeal with the Lazio Regional Administrative Court against the Prefecture of Rome and the Minister of the Interior to request the annulment of the disqualification note (now suspended) due to the risk of mafia infiltration linked to the presence on the property of Francesco Corallo. In a 51-page appeal, Bplus traces the entire history of the company and also complains of the various pressures it has experienced over the years, well before the Milanese investigations into the Ponzellini-Bpm case began, to force the group to be sold. Bplus is asking the prefect of Rome and the interior minister for compensation of 1,26 billion euros for the damages suffered.
