Court of Auditors, local taxes to the limit: the tax authorities of Commons + 22% in 3 years – The Messenger

In the last three years there has been a “gradual increase in the tax burden,” municipal, increased from EUR 505.5 in 2011 to 618.4 euro per capita 2014.

writes the Court of Auditors in the report on local finance. “The maximum levels of tax collection” are registered in the municipalities with more than 250 thousand inhabitants, arriving at EUR 881.94 each.

The dynamics of local revenue, the judges write accounting, it is mainly due to “two phenomena: the deterioration of the economic picture, with effects particularly penalizing the amounts resulting from the smaller tax bases “and the” numerous efforts to consolidate public finances, the effects produced by the incoherent and sometimes frantic succession of interventions on sources of financing of local authorities have given considerable uncertainty in the management of budgets and in the formulation of tax policies territorial. “

To pay more, in general, are the citizens who live in larger municipalities, on the one hand, and those in small or small, under two thousand inhabitants. The municipalities with a total population of more than 250,000 inhabitants are twelve (and alone represent 23% of the total expenditure of Italian Municipalities). In municipalities between 60 thousand and 249mila inhabitants collecting per capita stood at EUR 649.69. Followed by the municipalities of the lower range (1 to 1,999 inhabitants) with 628 Euros per inhabitant, as “indicative of how the level of punitive tax burden in small towns discounts the differences in tax base (and therefore less fiscal capacity) that, in front of more than incisive corrective measures on the level of financial resources needed to ensure essential services, have led to a ‘run-up to the exercise of the highest tax effort. “

The lower level of tax collection is recorded in common between 5 and 10 thousand inhabitants (511.76 euro per capita) and at all intermediate layers are placed below 600 euro each. Looking at the revenue for ‘macro areas, the Court of Auditors noted that “the years 2012 and 2014 mark, in general, very high levels of cash receipts from taxes, with peaks particularly marked in the Islands, where the level reached in 2014 is almost double to 2011, an increase of 93.62%. ” The Islands and the South are also areas where greater was the reduction in transfers (respectively -49.5% and -34.6% between 2011 and 2014).