Critical Assiterminal the hypothesis of an increase of 2% of the income tax of the concessionaires of harbour areas



As soon as breathed a sigh of relief for the withdrawal of the amendment to the fiscal bill that previewed the institution of a contribution on the container full and empty disembarked and boarded in the Italian ports(on 3 December 2019), the Italian Association Terminalisti Harbour (Assiterminal) is newly withholding the breath because the government would be programming the increase of two points percentages of the income tax deriving from activities carried out on the base of authorizations and which released harbour concessions according to the law n. 84 of 1994 for the periods of tax 2019, 2020 and 2021. And this with the objective to realize participations for the improvement of the infrastructural net and the transports.

"We are hardly veterans - Assiterminal in a combined note with Assologistica has commented, the national association of the operators of logistics on account third party - from a "rinsavimento" of politics with respect to the re-entered amendment that would have instituted a "contribution which unified on the goods" that it blunts a hypothesis "robin tax" that it according to previews an increase of 2% on the Ires "… on the yield deriving from the activities carried out on the base of authorizations and which released harbour concessions of article 16 and 18, law 84/94".

"Overwhelmed - they have denounced the associations of the terminalisti and the logistic enterprises - it is the adapted adjective more. Also on this provision we do not enter on the merit "to the aim to realize participations you turn to the improvement of the infrastructural net and the transports" that obviously finds not only our category but all the cluster near the government, but we cannot esimere emphasizing once again that similar initiatives inerziano the field of the portualità! We ask therefore - they have concluded Assiterminal and Assologistica - a "operoso repentance""

While the national secretaries of the Filt Cgil, Natale Colombo and Michele De Rose, have manifested satisfaction for the removal of the amendment that would have introduced a contribution on the container: "it is - they have emphasized - a provision that went absolutely removed for the good of the portualità and the transport of the goods of the Country. To have well supplied to the cancellation and for our part we have supported who, in this phase of review, has demonstrated of having same our objectives, to defense of the ports and the road haulage".

"The amendment - it has found Natale Colombo - was clearly a sign that the importance of the portualità of the Country and its criticalities are not very clear. A field that, instead of being supported in order to favor of development and occupation, would have continued to being land of conquest in order to weight down of ulteriorly the direct and indirect fiscality. Our ports and the companies that insist to you already heavy contribute to enrich the cases of the State. The Italian portualità has a true value that goes safeguarded and strengthened also through the completion of the enforced legislative instruments rather than to be continuously object of provisions capestro".

"This ulterior increase in weight of the taxes, if it were approved of - it has observed moreover Michele De Rose - risked to strongly compromises also the estate of the fallen back companies of road haulage as the possible ones, considering the ulterior costs that would have been pulled down on import and the export of the goods, harbour enterprises were not limited to the sun".