Building bonus, from tax incentives half the turnover for 1 in 3 professionals

The Superbonus has created many opportunities for professionals, but the bureaucratic burden is considered excessive. This is what emerges from the study “Tax Incentives and Superbonus: the opinions and problems of professionals”, developed by the Inarcassa Foundation

The survey, conducted on a sample of 6446 respondents, reveals a not very positive opinion on the Superbonus due to the resulting distortions, such as the increase in prices and anti-fraud measures. Better are the other building bonuses, which have obtained better reviews overall.

The study shows that 8 out of 10 freelance architects and engineers have done work taking advantage of incentives and of these 73% have done interventions applying the 110% Superecobonus. Not only that, 1 in 3 professionals attributes more than half of their turnover in the last two years to tax bonuses

On average, the average turnover deriving from the bonuses constituted 38% of the turnover of the responding professionals.

In the last period, the Superbonus has aroused a lot of interest thanks to the particularly high rate and the possibility of obtaining reimbursement in 5 years instead of 10.

For survey participants, the Superbonus has a number of positive aspects. First, energy efficiency (70%), then the increase in economic activity (45%) and the greater seismic safety of buildings (27%). Furthermore, for 79% of the respondents, the measures should take on a structural nature, and no longer exceptional or temporary, but on condition that they are modified

More than 50% of professionals have expressed a negative opinion on ecobonus 110% and Sismabonus 110%, while the Facade Bonus and the other categories of Bonuses obtain overall better reviews (more than 65% of positive reviews).

The causes are many. For the Superbonus, the bureaucratic burden for carrying out the procedures is judged to be excessive compared to the usual procedural procedures. Even the effects of the Anti-Fraud Decree are perceived as more harmful than useful: although they aim to pursue the right goals, they entail many slowdowns for professionals. What was most affected was the credit transfer mechanism, used by most of the professionals involved in work related to tax incentives (about 85% linked to

Only 10% of professionals declare that they have never encountered problems in the credit transfer procedures, while more than 50% have procedures that have not yet been resolved.

Among the negative aspects, related to all building bonuses, 80% of respondents identified the increase in material prices, due to growing demand

More than half of the interventions subsidized by building bonuses were carried out in the North. The other half is divided equally between the Center and the South

In the North, traditional building bonuses are more used than the Superbonus. This phenomenon could be explained, according to the Inarcassa Foundation, by the fact that, since these are regions with a higher average income than the levels of the Center and the South, citizens are more easily able to deduct

The territorial origin of professionals also influences the approval expressed for bonuses.

The opinion is much more positive in the South (43%), where a higher share of professionals (26%) counts the creation of new employment as one of the main positive aspects.

At the Center, professionals appreciate the effects of tax incentives on building seismic safety (34%).

“The current economic framework is complex and our sector has been strongly affected by the increase in the cost of raw materials and the crazy increase in energy costs, but the sector is in good health, also thanks to bonuses and tax incentives - says Eng. Franco Fietta, President of the Inarcassa Foundation - However, we have great room for improvement and the objectives defined in the PNRR, especially those related to seismic safety, require On our part, an additional effort.

“It is clear from the data that professionals have a positive opinion of the bonuses that have created the least problems for them, but it is necessary that they become structural. — concludes Mr. Fietta — incentive policies for the redevelopment of the building stock must become structural and not commercial, as in the specific case. We are facing the challenge of twin transitions (sustainable and technological) and the professionals at Fondazione Inarcassa want to make their contribution

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