Local taxes: in the 2019 families and businesses we risk paying 1 billion more

"Between Irap, Imu / Tasi and additional Irpef, families and businesses pay regions and local authorities over 60 billion euros a year. The incidence of this amount, on the total tax revenue, is equal to 12 per cent and, unfortunately, is destined to increase. In fact, since 2019, we risk paying at least 1 billion more, as a result of the removal of the block of local tax rates introduced in the budget maneuver currently the discussion in Parliament ".

The alarm is launched by the coordinator of the CGIA Studies Office, Paolo Zabeo.
After removing the blockade of local tax rates introduced by the 2016 Stability Law from the then Renzi Government, it is very likely that some Governors and many mayors will return to raise them up. According to some estimates, the 8.000 Municipalities present in Italy beyond the 80 percent have the margins to increase both the IMU on the second / third houses and the additional Irpef.
Furthermore, it can not be excluded that, following the increase of the IMU tax deductibility on the warehouses being finalized with the 2019 budget maneuver, some of the first citizens are tempted to retouch the rate of their competence upwards, at least until the threshold that does not allow entrepreneurs to pay more than they actually paid in 2018.
For these reasons, the CGIA study department hypothesizes, with a very conservative estimate, that the release of increases in local tax rates (Irap, Imu / Tasi, additional IRPEF, etc.) risks entailing a tax burden on families. and companies of at least 1 billion.
The economic difficulties faced by the Municipalities, for example, have been known for some time and have undergone a marked deterioration following the cuts imposed by the central government in recent years. In fact, between the 2010 and the 2017, the public finance measures carried out by the local Autonomies have led to a reduction in available resources equal to 22 billion.
The most affected were the Municipalities. If in the coffers of the mayors the contraction reached last year the 8,3 billions of euro, to the ordinary statute Regions the lower revenues have stabilized on 7,2 billions. The provinces, however, have suffered a decrease in resources equal to 3,5 billion, while the Special Statute Regions formally have not endured any contraction, even if the central state has imposed them to set aside well 2,9 billion.

Despite the blocking of increases in local taxes and the cut in transfers, the mayors have nevertheless found a way to compensate, at least in part, these lost revenues by acting on local rates.
"With the stop to increase local taxes - says the Secretary of the CGIA Renato Mason - many administrators have continued to feed their income by increasing the bills for the collection of waste, water, the lines of kindergartens, canteens and tickets bus. And all this, without weighing on the general tax burden, given that the price increases, unlike the increases in local taxes, do not contribute to weighing our tax burden, even if in an equally annoying way they help to lighten the portfolios of us all " .
In fact, between the 2015 and the first 4 months of this year, the main administrative fees applied by the municipalities (birth certificates, marriage / death) have increased by 88,3 per cent. Those applied by the companies controlled by these local authorities for the supply of water, instead, have undergone an increase of 13,9 percent, those of the nursery school of 5,1 percent, school canteens of 4,5 percent, urban transport of the 2 percent and XNXX percent waste. Inflation, on the other hand, has risen only in this period by 1,7 percent.

In essence, they conclude from the CGIA, after having suffered in the last 3 years a flurry of tariff increases to make shudder, next year families and businesses run the risk of suffering yet another tightening of local taxes. A fiscal squeeze that, of course, will only make the Italian taxpayers' budgets worse.

Local taxes: in the 2019 families and businesses we risk paying 1 billion more

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