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06 July 2019The Cgia Studies Office reports that Italian taxpayers who pay all taxes, duties and social security contributions requested by the Public Administration to the last cent, suffer a real tax burden of 48 percent: this is almost 6 points in more than the official figure, which in 2018 stood at 42.1 percent.
"Although in recent years the overall weight of taxes has been slightly decreasing - says the coordinator of the Studies Office Paolo Zabeo - many have not noticed, since at the same time the tariffs for electricity, water, gas have increased, motorway tolls, postal services, urban transport, etc. From an accounting point of view, these items are not included in the tax burden. However, they have had and continue to have very negative effects on the balance sheets of households and businesses, especially for those faithful to the tax authorities ".
As usual, the CGIA Research Office recalls that our GDP, like that of many other EU countries, also includes the effects of the unobserved economy. This 'wealth', attributable to irregular and illegal activities which, by its nature, has significant dimensions, makes no contribution to the increase in tax revenues. Recalling that the tax burden is calculated through the ratio between tax revenues and GDP, if from the wealth produced we separate the component attributable to the economy "in black", the tax burden for honest taxpayers inevitably rises, delivering a tax burden real much higher than the official one.