local taxes, is booming more than tripled in 20 years – BBC

study confcommercio

Milan , February 17, 2016 – 13:20

it’s a real boom for local taxes: in the last twenty years have more than tripled from 30 billion to 103 billion. The data is contained in the report ‘Public Finance and local taxes “of Cer-Confcommercio Study Centre presented this morning, Wednesday, February 17, by the organization’s president, Carlo Sangalli. A splash upwards especially taxes on property and waste: the last four years (2011-2015), property taxes have increased by as much as 143% (9,000,000,000 to 23.9000000000), although this year there It will be a drop to 19.4 billion thanks to the reduction on the first house; relating to waste by 50% (5.6000000000 to 8.4000000000).

Rome’s most expensive city

Taxes that not only increasingly penalizing, but also end up creating “discriminatory tax treatment”: “an entrepreneur with taxable IRAP amounting to 50 thousand euro and taxable personal income tax amounted to 50 thousand euro – said Sangalli – is forced to pay 2,255 euro more if he lives in Rome than people living in Trento. It is an unfair situation. you can not pay for the inefficiencies of the public service. ‘ In the 21 cities studied by the report, the three most expensive are, in order, Rome, Campobasso and Naples. The three best, however, Trento, Bolzano and Cagliari.

From the center to the periphery

Overall, in the two decades examined taxes in Italy have grown of 92%, for a total of nearly 500 billion euro (496.5 billion from the previous 258.1), with a tax burden increased from 40.3% to 43.7%. “That weakens a production system already exhausted by a tough crisis – said Sangalli -. Reduce the tax burden on businesses and families is a priority. Although the current public expenditure has finally reduced in 2015, the efforts are not enough. ” According to the report, edited by the Confcommercio Studies Office Director Mariano Bella, in 1995 direct taxes due to local governments was 7.5%, a figure rose to 14.5% at the end of 2015. From the center, the taxes moving to the suburbs.

The recipe, less public spending (and lower taxes)

“the way is an obligation,” according to the president of Confcommercio. And it is that “tight control of spending in general, strict application of the criterion of needs and standard costs, greater coordination between the various levels of government. Less government spending and less taxes is a recipe for a more dynamic and fairer country that wants to return to growth and that definitely wants to avoid the use of safeguard clauses’. The year that has just opened, “it will be difficult, a year of challenge that began with a given disappointing GDP in the fourth quarter of 2015. But Italy – concluded the president of Confcommercio – has all it takes to grow satisfactorily. “

February 17, 2016 (edited February 17, 2016 | 14:22)

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