Local taxes doubled in 20 years due to the choices made by the Governments that have followed one another from 1995 to today. This is one of the key points of the 2015 Report on public finance coordination, presented today by the Court of Auditors.
The report of the accounting judges shows how from 2008 to 2014 the Italian executives launched as many as 758 measures contained within 45 manoeuvres, for a total of 520 billion of Euro. The approved measures reduced the deficit for the period in question by 145 billion euro, but affected the distribution and dynamics of the levy.
At this point, as highlighted by the Court of Auditors, it is necessary to give families a greater spending capacity, also taking into account the fact that, as previously reported, from 1995 to 2014 the share of revenue of local authorities (regions, provinces and municipalities) on the total of public administrations almost doubled, going from 11,4% to 21,9%. An increase “the result of choices made at the central government level” with a view to fiscal federalism which led to theintroduction of the IMU and additional Irpef and Irap taxes.
