Confetra FVG, the recent measures in tax matters risk to penalize the import through the Italian ports



Confetra Friuli Venice Julia - ASPT-ASTRA F.V.G. (Association of the Shippers of the Port of Trieste - Alliance of the Shipment, the Transport and the Logistics in the Friuli Venice Julia) has denounced that the measures in tax matters approved of by the Chamber in the sitting 16th November can have the effect to divert towards other communitarian ports the goods in import that otherwise would pass through the Italian ports.

Past Wednesday the Chamber, with 359 ballots to favor and 166 contrarys, has voted the confidence issue mails from the government on the approval of the only article of the bill of conversion of the 22 bill October 2016, n. 193, bringing urgent dispositions in tax matters and for financing of indifferibili requirements (C. 4110 A/R) in the new text managed from the Commission as a result of the dismissal deliberated from the assembly.

ASPT-ASTRA F.V.G., the association that represents in the region Friuli-Venezia Giulia the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics (Confetra), has found that "the approval of an amendment who restores the performance of the VAT with the system of the reverse-charges has partially mitigated the effects of the heavy modifications that I decree treasurer had brought to the norm on the warehouses VAT, in particular for theirs uses by the Italian importers. However the return to the mechanism of the accounting reversal but is conditioned to the emanation by minister of the Economy and Finanze, of I decree disciplining to the cases and the modalities: until that it will not be emanated such I decree - it has explained the association - we consider that the VAT will have to be however anticipated from the manager of the warehouse in name and on behalf of the Italian importer. Permane therefore the concrete risk that much national customers decide to make to pass to own goods from other communitarian ports, where it is possible to carry out the import of the goods according to other procedures and successively acquitting to the obligations VAT in Italy, always with the system of the reverse charges".

The association has remembered that "Confetra Friuli Venice Julia has already had a chance for emphasize as this will determine for the Italian State a reduction of the custom offices embedded on said imports. Moreover it is expectable that the goods currently instradate through the regional ports will come wide diverted on the port of Koper, with a meaningful loss of traffics".

The association has concluded specifying that, "with such perspective, Confetra Friuli Venice Julia it wishes to thank the town council of Trieste, than in the sitting of 21 mondays November has discussed a urgent motion introduced in merit from the group about Forza Italia, approving of it unanimously. One confides - it has emphasized ASPT-ASTRA F.V.G. - than the regional representatives to the Senate they intend to make just the spirit of this motion and succeed to modify ulteriorly I decree treasurer, in order to restore the regime of the warehouse VAT also in favor of the Italian customers, avoiding the negative consequences of a provision that it would want to be anti-indirect, but in fact becomes soppressivo of the uneconomical regime and".