Vat to 5% for the marine cabotage short beam



the Commission Budget of the Chamber has approved of the amendment to the law budgetary second which the performances of city transport of people through services of marine, lacuale, fluvial and lagoon transport will be excluded by the regime of exemption and subjected to the share Vat to 5%, so that - the art. specifies 7-second. (Subjugation to VAT of the 5 percent of you served of lacuale, fluvial and lagoon transport marine) - the rate administered for the services of marine, lacuale, fluvial and lagoon transport is however to consider itself comprehensive of the VAT.

Satisfaction for the decision of the Parliamentary commission is expressed by Fedarlinea, the Italian association of the line armament that represents the companies of marine cabotage, that it has emphasized as this measure was invoked for a long time by the field of the cabotage and like the same Fedarlinea she has been protagonist of an action of sensitization near the government in order to obtain a result of fairness for the enterprises of the field.

"We carry to house - it has evidenced the president of Fedarlinea, Raffaele Aiello - an important result. We cannot that to express our approval to the government, the Ministry of Transportation and the undersecretary Simona Vicari in order to have short comprised the reasons of a fundamental request for the cabotage "beam", that it regards the operating enterprises on all the islands of the Country, and that it has seen us engaged in front line. It is - it has specified Aiello - the initial step of a distance face to correct some errors of the past that they entirely saw unloaded on the shoulders of the shipowners an improper burden for the distributed services, with a sperequazione regarding the remainder of the enterprises. The introduction of the share, than before did not exist, will allow, thanks to also a lowland percentage, to free resources to assign to the improvement of the services for the passengers".

the approval of the amendment is supported by the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports. "Draft - it has found Simona Vicari, undersecretary of the ministry - of an important result for the field as the approval of the norm will on one side make sure uniformity of treatment of the city transport via water with that on wheel and from the other it will constitute a strong stimulus for the renewal of the fleets, with sure fallen back positive on the occupation and the environmental impact. The innovation - it has explained - is that this norm, without to modify the cost of the ticket for the consumer, will allow with the companies that carry out activity in marine local public transport to deduct this Vat in order then to invest in the renewal of the fleets. Own as it was already for the transport on rubber. The discrimination between marine public transport and that is eliminated therefore on rubber".