"The recent position of the Revenue Agency risks to have a serious impact on the employment of seafarers Italians". This was stated by the president of Confitarma, Mario Zanetti, referring to the Agency's answer no. 10 of 2026 on the taxation of income received by seafarers on board on ships flying a foreign flag and pointing out that with this the consolidated criteria are called into question applications adopted so far. "For this reason, Confitarma - made Zanetti - is already actively involved in all the competent institutional offices so that it is quickly re-established a coherent, certain interpretation in line with the previous positions expressed by the Agency itself".

Confitarma complained that the ruling contradicts what previously supported on the same issue by the same Agency and questions the way the threshold is calculated time required by law, equal to 183 days over 12 months, upon reaching which the Irpef exemption is triggered, in presence of a plurality of non-consecutive embarkations and often straddling two calendar years, which - highlighted the Confederation - is completely physiological.

Confitarma denounced that the position of the Tax Agency Revenue opens an unexpected scenario of great uncertainty that risks compromising behaviour so far adopted in full coherence with the previous indications provided by the Agency itself and to put at risk the employment of Italian maritime workers.