Tell me where you live, I'll tell you how much you'll pay. The most hated tax in Italy, the Imu, is anything but a homogeneous tax. This is certified by a study by former senator Marco Stradiotto, which compares the weight of the levy on real estate in the various provincial capitals. The calculations, of course, refer to 2012, given that for this year the down payment has been postponed pending a remodulation by the Government, which has promised to revolutionize the IMU system by August.
At the head of the ranking relating to the first house there is Siena, where on average citizens paid 239,63 euros. An amount over twenty times higher than that paid by the taxpayers of Crotone, the luckiest, with 10,95 euros. The "spread" between the two extremes of the ranking, therefore, is a good 230 euros. In the top 10 of the most expensive capitals there are only cities in the centre-north, with the exception of Cagliari and Caserta.
Broadening our gaze to the taxation of all properties, the primacy still belongs to the Sienese, who paid out an average of 902,54 euros. TO Milan e Rome the threshold of 800 euros per inhabitant was exceeded (respectively 856,89 and 810,61 euros), about five times the amount paid by the inhabitants of Iglesias, at the bottom of the ranking with 163,22 euros.
As for the difference with the old ICI on first homes, the heaviest increase was recorded in Taranto: +78,53%, to reach 56,85 euros last year. Among the cities with the greatest increases follow Ancona (+54% to 133,63 euros) and once again Siena (+53%). The transition was instead more advantageous for Crotone, which recorded the greatest decrease between Ici and Imu (-67,82%), followed by Cuneo (-48,89% to 39,18 euros) and Pesaro (-38,55% at 41,29 euros).
