– The purchasing power of households, that is, the income in real terms, according to Istat increased in the second quarter of 2015, by 0.2% on the previous quarter and 1.1% on an annual basis. According to the Institute of Statistics income grew by 0.5% in current values at the overall situation, which becomes a + 1.3% on an annual basis. Salt also consumer spending: + 0.7% on the previous quarter and up 0.8% on the year.
Looking at the first six months of 2015, the spending power of households rose by 0.8%, while nominal income grew by 0.9%. It falls instead, even if slightly, the investment rate of households (-0.1 and -0.2 percentage points quarter-on-year). In this regard, the Institute of Statistics remembers how the investments of households practically coincide with the purchase of housing.
Turning to companies, or rather non-financial corporations, the share of profit in the second quarter stood at 39.9%, slightly higher economic (+0.1 points over the quarter), but downhill on-year (more than a tenth of a point). Apart from the small movements share remains slightly above historic lows.
Growth stronger purchasing power since 2007 – Istat stresses that the purchasing power of families to grow back which had not happened since 2007. In the second quarter in fact the real income It rose 1.1%, to find a higher value must go back eight years before the explosion of the crisis. Please bear in mind that in the last period an important role is played by inflation, which remained stable at low levels by breathing in purchasing power.
In declining deficit / GDP ratio – Istat points out that the deficit / GDP ratio in the second quarter was 0.9%, down 0.2 percentage points from the same period of 2014. And ‘the lowest figure in eight years. According to the Institute of Statistics, moreover, the net debt is falling in the first six months of 2015, amounting to 3.2% of GDP (in 2014 it was 3.5%).
Pressure tax stops at 43.2% – The tax burden in the second quarter stood at 43.2%, down 0.1 percentage points over the same period previous. For all the first six months there was an amount equal to 41.1%, the same also recorded for the first half of last year.
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