"The government goes on: the action of the government nhe cannot follow the electoral calendar ”. Like this Mario Draghi bubble the tone of Matteo Salvini who has chosen not to vote in the Council of Ministers the fiscal delegation. The leader of the League, in front of the press reporters, reads the text, in the part concerning the land registry, and calls for its cancellation in Parliament. "This is a hidden asset ", he attacks, also opening the front of the tax bills".
“This government does not tax and does not touch the homes of Italians - Draghi makes it clear - I said from the beginning, from the first inauguration speech, that I would not increase taxes. It's been 7 months we haven't raised taxes, there have been many requests to do so, we've told everyone no. We have acquired some credibility. This government does not increase taxes ".
Draghi specifies a transparency operation on the cadastre: "Why hide behind the opacity?". No step back, therefore, but a willingness to intervene to "rebalance" the tax burden, because "it is clear that there are many people who pay too much and many who pay less than what is due".
The premier made it clear that there is no government crisis and that soon there will be a meeting with the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini.
The commitments and the agenda dictated by Brussels must be guaranteed anticipates Draghi: the Government "It goes on" and the only "calendar" that marks its action is that "negotiated with the EU Commission for the PNRR" certainly not the "electoral" one. "We must follow the reform calendar negotiated with the Commission for the NRP and also the recommendations“, Including that of reforming the land registry, addressed by the EU to Italy.
With regard to the tax delegation, the premier reiterates that it will then be decided, in 2026, if "to charge or not“, But in the meantime the reform he initiated serves to clarify an“ opaque ”system. In the end, according to some experts, “Most would end up paying less"He adds.
But Salvini insists that any mention of the review, even in the future, of the estimates be deleted from the delegation and try to move the issue to Parliament, 'saving' the emergence of uncensored properties and requesting the cancellation of "paragraph 2 of the article 7, letters a and b ". He will talk to Draghi about this directly, during the next face-to-face.
On the other majority forces Salvini throws a jab: "If they want, Letta and Conte come out because Parliament has trusted Draghi to lower taxes not to increase them".
The reform of the Land Registry according to the Government project
The government aims to update the data contained in the immense computer archive of the Cadastre. And the objective is twofold: to insert - as already happens when a sale is made - the market value of a property next to that of the cadastral estimates, without effects on taxation; on the other, an update of the cadastral maps with the declared intention of discovering uncensored or illegal properties and land, which may have changed their intended use.
Therefore, the hunt for ghost properties will start 9 years after the latest data disclosed: how much between 2010 and 2012 1,2 million houses not stacked were discovered, recovering 537 million euros. A 'battle' that will use new weapons - from information technology to drones - encouraging municipalities to undertake this 'renewal' operation. It will in fact be a modernization of the mapping of the properties which will also lay the foundations for a reform of the land registry, which is not too specified in the delegation presented by the government.
It is known that the Finance authorities had studied the overcoming of cadastral spaces in favor of square meters. But there is nothing of this in the text. Not even the possible novelty of the 'classification' reform - the so-called categories A1, A2, A3 etc. - which had also been talked about.
There is not even any indication of a rebalancing of the estimates between the center and the periphery of the cities. After all, Mario Draghi explained it clearly at the time of the launch: no change for taxes and every delegated decree will arise from the confrontation with the Parliament. So with the political forces.
The times are long. The integration of the data of the estimates with those of the market will start only from 2026. Economy Minister Daniele Franco said, repeating the date indicated in the proxy in parliament.
"For now it is an exercise to understand the state of our real estate system", he added. But certainly the enrichment of the land registry with market data will be the basis for a reform. Market values - it is also established - will have to be constantly updated. Instead, they will be controlled for historic properties, which must be taken into account - in market prices - that in some cases their management is very expensive. The real novelty is however the need to update the archive with undeclared properties and land.
The Revenue Agency, which has absorbed the old agency of the Territory, together with the municipalities will hunt for 'ghost' properties but also for those that do not respect the real consistency, the intended use or the cadastral category assigned, in practice who has a luxury home and declares it as if it were a shack.