The long ballet on the Imu, an endless minuet, shows no sign of ending, with the outbreak of the mayors' revolt, clarified in the statements of Piero Fassino who, in his capacity as president of the association of Municipalities, asks the Government to "make clarity because citizens' patience cannot be abused", and to honor the explicit commitments undertaken in the decision to pass the IMU on first homes, i.e. that "taxpayers would no longer pay the IMU in 2013 and the Municipalities the same amount would have been guaranteed in order to ensure the provision of essential services to citizens". Meanwhile, the mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia speaks of "madness" and fears an "institutional clash" which, in fact, has already begun.
Stone of the scandal is, in fact, the decree that canceled the second installment of the IMU on the first house. The bad discovery, for the mayors and the inhabitants of the many municipalities (873) who raised the base rate fixed at 4 per thousand (it was possible to reach up to 6 per thousand) is that citizens will have to pay half of the increase, because the text of the decree states that the Government must compensate the Municipalities for only 50% of the difference. A queue, which according to the CGIA, will cost between 71 and 104 euros.
A real joke, for many citizens, enchanted by the sirens of those who, for months, have made the abolition of this tax a political banner. The decision taken by the Government can be explained by a simple suspicion: the Municipalities still have time to increase the rate and it is believed by Rome that, if full reimbursement were guaranteed, a strange upward race would start to obtain more funds.
Reasonable, perhaps, but in the meantime the fire of protest is blazing among the mayors of Italy, in an exchange of accusations that ignites a climate of suspicion. According to the mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris "if a tax is eliminated but the costs fall on the Municipalities, the game of three cards is played and that of the government remains a political-demagogic operation". Without these resources, "a dramatic situation will be created which will involve the Municipalities and the provision of essential services". But there are many other municipal administrators who have expressed themselves strongly against the work of the Government. All relaunch the same proposal: a meeting between the executive and the Anci as soon as possible, and that the costs of a mainly political choice, that of the abolition of the Imu, should not have to be paid once again by the citizens.
