The premier Matteo Renzi blocks the way to the amendment to Budget, approved by the Finance committee of the Chamber, which provides a narrow anti-avoidance on revenues from rent short< / strong> including those intermediated by platforms like Airbnb. "No new tax to Budget, no. Even Airbnb. Until the premier I, the taxes are lowered and not raised #next," he wrote on Twitter on Saturday, the president of the Council. By return came the answer of Francesco Boccia, chairman of the Budget commi ttee of the Chamber: "I Want to assure the chairman of the board and the secretary of my party, Renzi: Airbnb will not pay taxes in our country in spite of theincredible business doing here, exactly as it has always done until now," he said.
"The amendments renamed the 'Airbnb' does not really concern the american multinational, which continued undisturbed to escape the taxman, but also allow the home owners to be able to use the coupon dry for rentals of a short period in which income is, usually, to black. The proposal comes from multiple parliamentary groups, starting from the Pd, and we’ll talk again in the coming days in the Budget commission".
according to the proposal by mep Pd Silvia Fregolent, the sites that bring together owners and renters should only make a replacement set, receiving a coupon dry to 21% on the transaction. The rate, however, would apply to all locations in the short-term, including b&b and guesthouse, with the exclusion of the real hotels. It is not, therefore, a "tax on Airbnb". Unless the reference Renzi is the fact that the amendment has, for the counteract evasion, the liability on the payment of fees by the private and the intermediary. Also provided for the establishment of a specific register at the internal Revenue Agency in which shall be recorded particulars of those who rent the house.
deputies M5S of the Finance Committee commented that "the Pd is aware only now of the problem of the emergence of the black in the field of short stays, but as usual the wrong recipe against the owners of the accommodations and online platforms such as AirBnb". "From time", explains the spokesman for the M5S Daniele Pesco "we presented to a resolution and a bill, turned also into an amendment to the Budget law, which contempera the need to avoid unfair competition in respect of the accommodation traditional, with the objective of bringing out the income from short leases, through taxation and without then to suffocate these forms of the sharing economy". "In practice, let’s take down the rate of 21% to 10% if you pay within 60 days, we give the possibility to the platform to make a substitute tax, without imposing imaginary register, we ask tha t the ministry of the Interior to transfer the data on housing from the revenue Agency, in order to encourage an exchange of information, which comes to life thanks to the loyal cooperation of the citizens."
