Milan – Between 2010 and 2014, the municipalities have been cut for about “8000000000″, offset by “very pronounced increase” local taxes “to preserve the balance in response to severe corrective measures government “. It puts on paper the Court of Auditors in the report on local finance stressing that today the burden of the tax is “the limits of the compatibility with the local fiscal capacity.” The last three years, also, there was a “gradual increase in the tax burden” municipal, increased from EUR 505.5 in 2011 to 618.4 Euros per capita in 2014: “The maximum levels of tax collection” are registered in the municipalities with more than 250 thousand inhabitants, arriving at EUR 881.94 each.
The cuts. “On the revenue side – we read in the introduction in the report – the root of a biasing mechanism, so the competition of local authorities to fiscal targets weighs, ultimately, the taxpayers in terms of tax increases, originates in the heavy and repeated cuts to state resources arranged by financial maneuvers that continued in 2011, echoed the chronic delay in the recomposition of the sources of financing of the expenditure necessary to ensure efficient public services and economic. This aggravates and makes permanent the inefficiency of management, despite the significant increase of the own revenues (+ 15.63% compared to 2013), which raises financial autonomy beyond the threshold of 65% and absorbs the progressive reduction and constant transfers (-27.29%). “
The magistrates accounting also observed that” the growth of financial institutions , however, it does not seem to produce beneficial effects or services, or on consumption and on local employment, in the absence of an adequate share of Stimulated by public investment “and” would then be recovered federalist project that links the responsibility to ‘grip ‘the responsibility of’ spending ‘, realizing a necessary correlation between sampling and use. ” Project “that is definitely functional costing and standard requirements, necessary to finally overcome the criterion of ‘historical expenditure’, but that the most recent legislative not seem adequately support, going in the direction of greater flexibility in budgets, an ephemeral liquidity recovery with very long-term redemption charges and a reduction of the expenses connected with the fledgling discipline of accounting. “
The revenues. The dynamics of revenue local, the judges write accounting, is mainly due to “two phenomena: the deterioration of the economic situation, with effects particularly penalizing the amounts resulting from the smaller tax bases” and the “numerous efforts to consolidate public finances, the effects produced by 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 very 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 the municipalities of 5 to 10 thousand inhabitants (511.76 euro per capita) and at all intermediate layers are placed below 600 euro each.
Looking at revenue ‘ 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 compared to 2011, with 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).
Yesterday, the Court of Auditors launched the alarm about the lack of resources of the provinces and the consequent risk of “not guarantee services of primary importance. In this regard, the Secretary of State for Regional Affairs Gianclaudio Bressa intervened in a statement:” With approval expected next week Decree Bodies local reform Delrio was placed in the right track, putting the old provinces in terms of addressing the problems identified by the Court of Auditors “.
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