“Differentiated autonomy? Taxes for citizens will remain unchanged”: words of Minister Giorgetti

The MEF summit illustrated the implementation plan and prospects for fiscal federalism in a parliamentary hearing, reassuring taxpayers

ROME – “In line with the commitments undertaken in the Pnrr, the tax reform delegation law 111/2023 has identified specific guiding principles and criteria so that the Government can achieve the full implementation of the regional fiscal federalism, amending Legislative Decree 68/2011. The implementation of symmetric federalism provides that following the abolition of tax transfers, it must be ensured in the Regions with ordinary statute. an amount of resources such as to leave the tax burden on taxpayers unchanged in any case”. This was said by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti, in a hearing in the parliamentary commission for the implementation of fiscal federalism on issues relating to the state of implementation and prospects of fiscal federalism. To this end, continued Giorgetti, “the VAT sharing must be shared on the basis of the principle of territoriality. This activity is the subject of specific milestones of the Pnrr, and the transfers to the Regions with ordinary statute which will have to be abolished from 2027, the necessary mechanisms for the taxation of transfers, the principle of territoriality for the attribution of VAT sharing, the essential levels of benefits and the equalization methods”.

The technical commission for standard requirements, explained the minister, “has drawn up a final document which contains the list of taxable transfers, which amount to approximately 10 billion and concern relevant areas of competence regional such astpl, policies for the family, young people and disabilities, social policies for non-self-sufficiency, agriculture, education, professional training and the right to university study”.

Now “the Department of Regional Affairs is holding meetings to evaluate how to follow up this reform. In the context of the transfers to be taxed, particular attention must be paid to those relating to local public transport, which amount to 5 billion, half of the total”.