The arrival of spring, in addition to bringing with it the first warm days and longer days, it will lighten the pockets of Italian employees and retirees. The pay slips that will arrive, canonically, on the 27th of the month, as well as having to deal with the constant increases (especially those of petrol and diesel, whose price runs inexorably), will also be a little thinner, starting today.
In fact, at the end of March, the increase in the levy on regional Irpef surtaxes will start for everyone, which will grow by 0,33%. The additional deductions will vary, according to the calculations of the national Caf-Cisl (the Tax Assistance Center of the Cisl), from 51 euros per year for low-income employees (1.200 euros gross per month) up to 137 for employees with salaries of 3200 euros , passing, briefly, through the 73 euros per year for workers with a 1.700 euro salary and the 94 for those who earn 2.200.
Some municipalities have already added municipal surtaxes to the regional income tax increase, as envisaged by the maneuver of last August 2012th which recognized the municipal administrations, starting from the first months of 0,8, the possibility of increases on the municipal income tax up to a maximum level of XNUMX%.
At the moment there are few administrations that have already approved these increases (the effects of which, in these cases, will already be felt in the incoming pay slips), but there is no doubt that, given the deep red in which the budgets of Italian municipalities are pouring, sooner or later they will all adapt.
Again according to Caf-Cisl calculations, in the municipalities that have approved a 0,30% increase in surtaxes, such as Catanzaro, the additional withholding will increase from 47 euros a year for employees with an income of 1.200 euros a month (for a total, added to the regional surcharges, of 98 euros) up to 125 euros for workers with a medium-high income (for a total of 262 euros a year).
In the case in which, however, as in Chieti, the increase will be 0,135 percent, the annual total will vary from a total of 73 euros for the lowest incomes to 193 for medium-high level workers.
On the other hand, pensioners and very low-income employees will escape the sting. Not even paying the main Irepf, in fact, they will be exempt from paying any additions. Specifically, these are pensioners up to the age of 75 who earn up to 7.535 euros a year and those over 75 who earn up to 7.785 euros. Workers, on the other hand, will be exempt up to 8.030 euros.
But the worst, for the pockets of the Italians, is yet to come. The actual bloodletting, in fact, is expected in June with the debut of the IMU (Single municipal tax), the new property tax that will replace the ICI and will involve first homes (1,5 per thousand) and all other properties (3 per thousand). Moreover, with the introduction of this new tax, the government promises to deal with a profound reform of the land registry, which aims to update the old tax values and which provides for payment no longer for cadastral rooms, but for square meters.
Furthermore, this reform has as its primary objective, that di create a mapping of the territory that takes into account the fluctuations in the real estate market that have occurred in recent years, thus smoothing out the inequalities in the distribution of the levy. The result of this mapping will be the increase of the tax burden in the big cities and the most famous tourist resorts and its proportional decrease in the provinces and in the more degraded suburbs of the big cities.
To all this could be added, then, starting from October, l'much feared increase of two percentage points in VAT, which would thus go from 21 to 23%, but the possibility still exists that, thanks above all to the spending review, the Government is not forced to resort to it. We'll be watching.
