The “Single Zes strategic plan”, adopted at the end of 2024, represents a “fundamental relaunch factor” of the territories of the special economic area, which, however, presupposes “a punctual monitoring” on the impact of the measures implemented and “an incisive administrative action” by the mission structure. This is what emerges from the interlocutory resolution of the college of concomitant control of the Court of Auditorswith which the accounting judiciary approved the report on the progress of the project, reserving further investigation.
As highlighted in the previous resolution, The plan, which defines the ZES development policy for the South, includes the territories of Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sicily and Sardinia and is based, among other things, on two operating pillars: the digital single desk – “South Zes” – and the tax credit.
South Zes, the Court underlines, “is an administrative simplification tool that allows you to start economic activities or to establish industrial, productive and logistical activities in the single ZES, presenting the necessary requests and communications to the digital unique door. In relation to the applications made from March 2024, with the full operation of the mission structure, South Zes has allowed – reads the document – a reduction in the preliminary investigation times of the unique authorization requests accepted and an increase in the acceptance rate itself “. The tax credits – provided for by the 2024 budget law for a spending limit of 1.8 billion euros, raised, for 2025, at a total 2.2 billion – are, instead, tax breaks for investments, in favor of companies that acquire capital goods intended for production structures in specific areas of the regions mentioned.
As of April 9 of this year, the accounting judiciary concludes, in the face of an overall request for tax credits for over 2.5 billion euros, for investments located for over a third in the Campania region (35.74%), followed by Sicily (21.38%) and Puglia (18.05%), about 2 billion had already been made available.