Check one third Imu instalment in a amendment to the Budget law. Anyone who has paid or is about to pay the second instalment, expiring December 18th, could be forced to pay a third by February 29, without penalties and interest, if a positive difference results from the application of the new rates. In theory it could also be a refund, if the difference is negative, but given the conditions of municipal finances no one believes it.
The amendment emerged as a surprise yesterday, Wednesday 13 December, in the package amendments by the majority rapporteurs. The speakers from Fratelli d'Italia, Forza Italia and Lega filed it in the Budget Committee. The amendment grants to Municipality more time to establish the rates, specifying that, "only for 2023, the resolutions will be valid if inserted in the fiscal federalism portal by 30 November. The deadline for publication has been moved to January 15, 2024,” we read in the text.
Third Imu instalment: who will have to pay it? And why?
The "good" news (if we can call it that) is that the rates are already almost all at the maximum: 10,6 per thousand or 11,4 per thousand in the centers that had decided and confirmed the Tasi increase until 2019. Attention, however, they are there around 200 municipalities who published the resolution after October 28: in this case the decision is not valid, but the amendment could change the cards on the table to avoid the risk of a cash shortfall. These are Municipalities, including small towns and larger localities such as Arezzo and renowned ones such as Portofino.
Consumer protest
The government's decision which risks making citizens pay more taxes clashes with the long history of battles in defense of the home, considered a "sacred" asset by Italians, by the center-right and above all by Silvio Berlusconi.
Le consumer associations they protest, defining it as shameful to give more time to latecomers, trampling on taxpayers' rights. Some critical issues concern the failure to guarantee 60 days between communication and payment, as required by the Taxpayer's Statute. We'll see.