In recent years, thanks to the notable success of platforms such as Airbnb and the likein all Italy a formidable micro-entrepreneurship was born rentals shortThe elderly lady who lives on a not particularly rich pension has started to rent a room; the employee has invested his savings to buy a two-room apartment to be made available to tourists; some entrepreneurs realized that both the lady and the employee might need someone to wash the sheets, manage arrivals and take charge of cleaning the rooms.
A company with a strong tourist vocation like ours has therefore seized on some changes in progress: connected to the spread of telematics and the mobility of workers and tourists. Even people who had never managed a company began to think about what was the most appropriate price to offer, what improvements to make to your propertywhich are the main consumer needs that need to be satisfied.
They emerged out of nowhere, consequently, thousands of de facto entrepreneurseven though none of them would have ever defined themselves in that way. At a certain point, however, the political-bureaucratic apparatus moved, and this time too the damage was significant. Such entrepreneurial dynamism on the part of the employee and the old lady did not please everyone. For example, it annoyed the hotelierswhich at this point had to face high-quality competition: because it is not the same to stay in a small hotel room of only 12 square meters instead of in a four-room apartment with double bathrooms and a garden. The lobby has moved and over the years the ministers have received the message.
In addition to this, there is a large part of Italy that he hates free enterprise and profitprivate property and market creativity. There is an ideology of regulation that unites the technostructure of the State and the large concentrated interests that love to “capture” the rulers, dictating ever new laws and unprecedented regulations to those who regulate our lives. Consequence? Today managing a short-term rental is as sad as working at the land registry or registry office.
Even before the minister Daniela Santanchè moved by multiplying obligations and rules (because, seen from Rome, there is always some wild west to defeat …) things were not very cheerful. By virtue of a fascist law, which at the time served to keep opponents under control (in more civilized countries, obviously, nothing similar exists), whoever hosts someone must report the matter to the police station, sending a copy of the identity documents within 24 hours. Madness? Yes: a mass of useless information for the barracks and a great waste of time for those who work. All this, moreover, on the basis of a presumption of (potential) guilt. A legal absurdity and a waste of energy.
Now the duties have multiplied considerably, because – for example – every guest who stays even a couple of nights must match a contract and because there is now a monstrous amount of obligations on the part of the owner of the room or apartment. Because houses must have smoke detectors, fire-prevention devices and so on.
The result is that many managers of the rentals short the desire to do it has passed.
Is it a problem of taxation and state extortion? Partly that is, but the regulation weighs just as much. Because to a large extent what kills is precisely the great quantity of impositions that are eliminating every entrepreneurial space and the smallest freedoms to those who, often for the first time in their lives, had begun to think within the logic of a competitive economy, at the service of others.
Just as ten years ago the Monti government reduced tourist ports to a minimum through taxation, now with regulation the government Melons is massacring the countless micro-businesses in fact that they arose spontaneously and outside of any bureaucratic control. This cannot surprise us, given that we have known the reality of this country for a long time. And Italy, for a long time, has certainly not been a country for entrepreneurs.
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