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42,4%. Write down this number and start shaking. Do you want to know what it corresponds to? Alla tax burden that Italians had to suffer in 2019. Yes, suffer because this data indicates the buoyancy threshold to which entrepreneurs, VAT numbers and employees must cling. Every year the water rises and the air becomes thin. Let’s get into the data. Twelve months ago the tax burden was anchored at 41.8%, all this emerges a few days after September 30, the last useful date to present the 730 model. While household income grew by 1.0% last year. The increase in purchasing power? 0.5%.
The propensity to save is steady at 8.1%. Furthermore, as reported by Il Corriere della Sera: “Value added by volume grew by 1.8 per cent in construction and by 0.5 per cent in the service sector and decreased by 1.7 per cent in agriculture, forestry and fishing and 0.7 per cent in industry in the strict sense “. What about the total government revenue? Increased by 2.9%. Someone will now wonder what exactly the tax burden is. Soon said. Let’s talk about the relationship between the taxes paid by the taxpayer and his taxable income.
It measures, in essence, the share of income that the State and local authorities, through taxes and duties, acquire from the citizen in order to finance public spending. Basically how much of our sweat ends up in the state coffers. Practically it is as if we pay taxes until June 3 and then begin to “enjoy” the fruits of our labor. Five months, abundant, donated. To receive what? We entrepreneurs, in primis, we find ourselves with the perennial reputation of tax evaders and the taxman’s gun aimed at the temple. So the middle class struggles, desperately. Let’s make a comparison with Germany. In Teutonic land, the tax collection is structured as no tax area.
In summary? The variable rate is modulated for incomes between 9 thousand and 55 thousand euros between 14% and 42%. Let’s compare it to the Italian one. An employee born in Berlin, within 15 thousand euros of income, pays more taxes than one born in Rome. Between 15 thousand and 25 thousand euros, on the other hand, taxation is similar. The real difference comes between 25 thousand and 65 thousand euros, the skeleton of the middle class, which sees the taxpayer of Vicenza pay much more than that of Stuttgart. The link in the words, issued to Courier service, of Enrico Zanetti former undersecretary for the economy in the Renzi government: “In Italy the family factor is valued for low incomes – explains Zanetti – much less for average ones. Our country is a country that confuses the noble principle of the progressive taxation with the noble claim of leveling down. because if you enter into the merits of an IRPEF reform you should start from a rebalancing of fiscal progressivity between low and medium incomes in favor of the latter. And then an adequate enhancement of the family factor is needed to restore purchasing power to the middle class “.
I am Andrea Pasini, a young entrepreneur from Trezzano sul Naviglio and in the face of this scenario, I am not ashamed to say that the Minister of Economy Roberto Gualtieri continues his personal and obsessive fight, which is that of credit institutions and high finance, against money and tax evasion. An obsession, while the scenario speaks of workers overburdened with taxes and duties. As stated in Agorà, on Rai 3, by the tenant of the dicastery in via XX Settembre: “We want to have the bottom lines of the Recovery Plan, in order to speak immediately with the EU Commission. The first money will actually arrive in the first months of 2021, a first 10 percent “.
Slaves to the lines of the European Union, all while Italian entrepreneurs continue to commit suicide. Since the beginning of the year 42 suicides, of which 25 registered during the lockdown period, 16 only in April (according to the sociologist Nicola Ferrigni, data updated to 9 May 2020). A massacre that must end. Let us work, let us support our children and we will be willing, without batting an eye, to pay taxes fairly to support Italy, our homeland.
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