The Robin Tax is "an unreasonable and disproportionate imposition also passed on to small and medium-sized companies which operate in the marketing of energy products and which cannot in any way be assimilated to the large oil operators". This is the accusation of Assopetroli-Assoenergia, whose president Franco Ferrari Aggradi was heard by the Finance and Social Affairs commissions of the Chamber on the delegation to the government for the tax and welfare reform.
The occasion of the hearing was used by the trade association of energy products and services to make precise proposals such as the "need to resort to limiting consumption through the rational use of energy which would allow savings of 20 to 50% in heating sector” and the possibility of “applying the reduced VAT of 10% on any fuel used in the energy service contract”.
Ferrari Aggradi also underlined the need for a "rebalancing of the tax burden between diesel and methane used in heating" on the excise side. Assopetroli then brought to the attention of the Commissions another issue deemed relevant for companies operating in this sector: "the right to the privilege of the value of the excise duty in the event of customer bankruptcy, recognized only to withholding agents, i.e. ', to the oil companies.
This privilege must also be recognized to petroleum product resellers who are the real 'cashiers' for the Treasury”, argued Ferrari Aggradi.
