Tax day spoilsport, slide the thirteenth – the Journal

RomaUna tax day spoilsport, literally. Approaching December 16, last day to pay a series of tributes that will ensure record payments to public coffers, central and peripheral. Are € 44 billion according to an estimate made yesterday by CGIA Mestre. The payment of VAT will ensure the most conspicuous amount, equal to 16 billion euro; from withholding income tax of employees from the tax authorities will collect another 12 billion, while the last installment IMU, which for the most part will flow into the coffers of Mayors, will cost Italians well 10.6 billion euro. Christmas 2014 will be remembered for the appearance of Tasi and its 2.3 billion receipts to municipalities. From Tari, namely the new levy on waste, will come to the municipalities 1.9 billion, while the payment Irpef self-employed workers will come a billion.

On 16 December is traditionally a deadline that “shakes his wrists,” said the secretary of the artisans of Mestre. But this is “a shower of deadlines – insists Bortolussi – that could call into serious difficulties many families and many small businesses because of the chronic lack of liquidity.”

The bad coincidence between taxation records and crisis confirmed by a report of Consumers Association, according to which most of the thirteenth will be consumed to pay taxes and, more worryingly, in many small and medium-sized companies could jump, “slipping in January or March,” explained Rosario Trefiletti, number one association consumerist. “We get signals in this direction”, tells Elio Lannutti, president of Adusbef, “SMBs with empty coffers of cash may decide to postpone for two or three months the thirteenth.” A liquidity problem that exacerbates an increasingly structural crisis of the Italian economy.

From businesses, to families, parties 2014-2015, mark another record low. “Even this year will be a Christmas of austerity and continues the downward trend in consumption Christmas, which saw the total expenditure of the Italian decline of over EUR 8 billion since 2007,” is the assessment made by Codacons. According to the organization of consumers, for Christmas 2014 household purchases of goods and services typical of the festivities down 5% compared to last year, with a reduction in spending of about 500 million Euros on 2013. It will save some of the crisis sectors, in particular food, telephony and toys, whose consumption “will be in line with those of previous years.” Male clothing, footwear, furniture, which are the areas most affected. And they are also the excellence of Made in Italy.