Skyrocketing taxes and nightmarish imposition. Based on a research conducted by the Cer in collaboration with ConfCommercio, local taxes have grown in our country by 248% in twenty years, reaching 2015% of direct taxation in 15.
Although the elimination of Imu and Tasi has interrupted the trend relating to the increase in local taxes, the tax burden attributable to decentralized administrations remains at an all-time high.
In fact, the study "The 2016 stability law and the prospects for local taxation in Italy", carried out by Cer-Confocommercio, shows that from 1995 to 2015 local taxes rose from 30 to 103 billion (+248% in fact). An increase accompanied by the increase in central taxation, which grew by 72% from 228 to 393 billion. It's still: if in 1998 less than 9% of direct taxation was attributable to local administrations, at the end of 2014 this share had risen to 15%.
Speaking of the future, between 2016 and 2017, local taxation should finally reverse the trend and fall to 5,5% of GDP, thanks to the Renzi government's decision to eliminate the tax on first homes. As regards direct local taxes, however, little or nothing will change: the weight should remain at an all-time high (2,2% of GDP for the entire current year, to then drop by two tenths in 2017.
Finally, according to Confcommercio estimates, in 2016 the property and waste taxes they will grow overall by 80% compared to 2011, going from 15,4 billion to 27,8 billion euro.
But is the situation the same everywhere? The answer is no. Indeed, the research demonstrates the existence of substantial differences at the local level. In detail, a Roman taxpayer with a taxable Irap and Irpef equal to 50 thousand euros pays over 2 thousand euros a year more than a Trentino, a thousand euros more than a Milanese and 1.550 more than a Florentine. In detail we are talking about 19.000 euros between Irap and personal income tax in Rome, 16.744 euros in Trento (13,5% less) and 17.631 euros in Florence.
Below is the table containing the Italian ranking of the level of local taxation between Irap and Irpef:
