Government taxes three times more ‘high local ones – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

18:42 August 22, 2015

(AGI) – Rome, Aug. 22 . – Taxes, fees and taxes that we pay to the central government are three times higher than we pay to regional and local authorities. Supports the research department of Ccia, according to which, for example, in 2014 the Treasury are “converged” well 379.7 billion, while the coffers of governors and mayors have been paid only to EUR 106.1 billion.
the total tax revenues collected by central government, continues Cgia, approximately 60% and ‘due to’ personal income tax (161.4 billion), to VAT (97.1 billion) and IRES (31 billion). Locally, however, the more taxes’ “heavy” I am Irap (30.4 billion of revenue), the IMU / Tasi (21.1 billion), additional regional income tax (10.9 billion) and the additional municipal income tax (4.4 billion).
a total of 485.8 billion of tax revenues collected by the IRS last year, about 78% and ‘ended up in the coffers of the central state and the only 22 per cent to local authorities. “In the collective – explains Paolo Zabeo CGIA – and ‘spread the idea 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 reality’ , things did not go their way ‘. If it’ s true that in the past 15 years, local taxes increased by 48.4 percent, in those head to the central government increased by 36.1 percent. A little ‘less but not by much. In absolute terms, the Regions and local authorities have suffered a tax burden of 34.6 billion euro, while the weight of the national tax authorities and ‘increased by as much 100700000000.
short if in 2000 the local taxes have started running, those tax payments recorded in absolute expansion much more ‘vigorous, with the result that families and businesses, despite themselves, have been forced to pay more and more’ ” .
For Cgia and ‘must be stressed however 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, also because of the amplitude of the time period considered (2000 to present).
In this period, highlights the ‘ Office studies Cgia were introduced numerous legislative changes which have had a significant impact on the financial relationship between the state and local governments. For example, the financing of health care ‘in the head even to the regions (with the Legislative Decree no. 56/2000), the increase in “mandatory” in the additional regional income tax of 0.33 percent (provisions of the decree Save Italy end of 2011) and cutting transfers to regions and local authorities as a result of the austerity measures of public finance. “In any case – 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 [1], the last year available, a decrease of 35 percent, amounting to EUR 18 billion. In the same period, tax revenues at the local level have grown by 32.6 billion. An amount, the latter is well above 18 billion of cuts suffered “.
However, and ‘in the last seven years there has been a real collapse of the transfers. He pointed out recently, the Court of Auditors: between 2008 and 2015 financial maneuvers have placed “22 billion cuts in transfers from the State (of which about 10 billion imposed on regions and the remaining 12 billion to preserve bodies local), which must be added the cuts to the funding needs of the health care system run by the regions for a total of 17.5 billion. ” (AGI).