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Taxes

The CGIA Mestre, despite the disappearance of his more representative executive, Giuseppe Bortolussi, continues to provide valuable information on the situation Italian and European. This time assessed the taxes applied in European countries, and calculates that if Italy fell in the middle level, the Italian savings per year would be 904 euro.

FISCO – The Office of Cgia studies has compared the tax burden of the major EU countries recorded in 2014: then, the analysis of the Research Department called differential taxation Italian taxpayers than in other European countries

FIRST PLACES – The result, as was predictable, sees Italians occupy the top positions of the ranking of the most harassed taxpayers of Europe. Among the major EU countries surveyed, the tax burden more high is found in France . In Paris, the overall weight of taxes, taxes, taxes and social security contributions amounted to 47.8 percent of GDP. Followed by Belgium with 47.1 percent, Sweden with 44.5 percent, Austria with 43.7 percent, and in fifth place, Italy . Last year, the tax burden in our country has stopped the 43.4 percent of GDP . The average of the 28 countries that comprise the EU, instead, has stabilized at 40 percent; 3.4 points less than here .

SAVINGS – In comparison, the research department of Cgia decided to calculate even the larger or smaller payments that each of us “discounts” respect to what happens elsewhere. Well, if the taxation in our country was in line with the European average, every Italian last year would save 904 euro. By making the comparison with Germany, however, it shows how the Germans pay on average 1,037 euro per year in less than us. Similarly, Italians pay 1,409 euro more than the Dutch, 1,701 euro in most of the Portuguese, 2,313 euro in most of the British, 2,499 euro in most of the Spanish and well 3,323 euro more than the Irish. Always compared to the level of Italian taxation, is known as the Austrians have paid 80 euro more than we, the Swedes 292 euro more, the Belgians 984 euro more and, finally, the French, with as many as 1,170 Euros.

BONUS – From Cgia remember that the figure of the Italian tax burden on the 2014 does not take into account the effect of the so-called “Bonus Renzi”. Last year, in fact, 80 € “returned” to the low average income of the employees have cost the state coffers 6.6 billion euro. The latter amount was recorded in the balance of our public administration as additional expense. Therefore, if you recalculate the tax burden considering these 6.6 billion euro that are practically a tax cut, even if the accounts are added to the outputs, the tax burden falls to 43 percent. In connection with this clarification, the CGIA has also drawn a comparison that takes into account this specificity. “To pay less taxes – says Paolo Zabeo CGIA – is necessary for the Government to act on the front of the rationalization of public expenditure; with cuts to the waste, the waste and the inefficiency of the public machine.

TIMES – In addition, this operation must be carried out very quickly. By September 30 , in fact, a result of the refusal of the European Union extension of the reverse charge to retailers, the government will have to find 728 million euro , otherwise there is an increase in fuel taxes of a similar amount. And to avoid a new tax increase, the statement of Cgia, the executive will have to sterilize a number of safeguard clauses extremely “challenging”.

TAXES – Although the Minister Padoan has in more than a ‘occasion averted a further increase in the tax burden, with the next stability law will have to find 16 billion to prevent an increase in revenue for the same amount for the coming year. Cuts that will have to go up to 25.4 billion in 2017 and 28.2 in 2018 . “Given the progress achieved in recent years with the so-called spending review – concludes Zabeo – we feel that it will be very difficult to hit these targets.”

DETERIORATION – In this analysis, finally, not ‘ lack even a historical reconstruction. In the last 15 years, however, the tax result emerged from a comparison with the European average has steadily worsened. If the 2000 Italian taxpayers were paying 44 Euros less taxes than the EU average, in the 2004 the tax burden for each Italian was top of the European average of 126 euro . The gap to our disadvantage is even rose to 841 euro in 2010 and to 904 euro in 2014 .

Given this situation, and above forecasts of analysts from here to 2018 CGIA, usually among the better informed, as are credible promises to reduce taxes touted by Renzi with the usual commercials? I leave to you the conclusions, but the percentage is expected to approach zero.