Taxes: the account of the central state three times saltier than the local – The Republic

Milan – While the government is studying how to implement the announced plan to reduce the tax burden, which is expected to be worth more than 45 billion in three years, taxes national came to weigh three times as much compared to the local ones. He detects the Studies Office of CGIA Mestre. In 2014, for example, Treasury are “converged” well 379700000000; coffers of Governors and Mayors, however, were paid only, so to speak, to EUR 106.1 billion. Of the total tax revenues collected by the central government, 60% is attributable income surtax (161400000000), to VAT (97.1 billion) and IRES (31 billion). Data that are now taking the reaction of the governor Veneto, Luca Zaia: “In Rome tassatori are professionals. They pretend to cut taxes at central and unload the burden of lost revenue on the local level. Now they all understand the play on Renzi and colleagues: grease the central government spending and disguise the alleged savings with real cuts that strangle regions and municipalities, especially those virtuous. “

On the local level, however, the tax” heavier “are Irap (30.4 billion revenue), the IMU / Tasi (21.1 billion), additional regional income tax (10.9 billion) and the additional municipal income tax (4.4 billion). Of a total of 485.8 billion of tax revenues collected by the IRS last year, about 78% ended up in the coffers of the central State and only about 22% of local authorities.

“In ‘ imagination – says Paul Zabeo CGIA – it is widely thought that in recent years governors and mayors would become the new tax collectors, while the central government would ease the tax burden to taxpayers. ” “In fact – notes -, things did not go their way. If it is true that over the last 15 years, local taxes increased by 48.4%, those in the hands of the central government rose by 36.1%. A bit less, but not by much. ” “In absolute terms – continues Zabeo – Regions and local authorities have suffered a tax burden of 34.6 billion euro, while the weight of the national tax authorities has increased by 100.7 billion. So, if in 2000 taxes locals have started running, those tax payments recorded in absolute terms much more vigorous expansion, with the result that families and businesses, despite themselves, have been forced to pay more and more. “

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it is “necessary to emphasize that local authorities and regions have increased taxes in excess of the cuts made by the center. A direct comparison of the dynamics of local taxes and the performance of transfers is not an easy task, even in because the amplitude of the timeframe considered that since 2000 “. In this period, it highlights the Cgia were introduced numerous legislative changes which have had a significant impact on the financial relationship between the state and local governments. “In any case – he concludes Zabeo – in recent years the government current transfers for the benefit of regional and local authorities rose from 53 billion euro in 2000 to 35 billion in 2013, the latest year available, a decrease of 35%, or to 18 billion euro. In the same period, tax revenues at the local level grew by 32.6 billion. An amount, the latter is well above 18 billion of cuts suffered. “

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