Increases coming for i smokersbut also for those who own aDiesel car. From today a package of cigarettes will cost on average 20 cents In addition, while the expected re -supporting of the excise promised by the government, which will translate into a greater cost of 1-2 cents for the diesel. A move, the latter, that the oppositions read as a new one sting For families already struggling with the dear-bralle and theinflation. But on which the majority reassures: no increase, it is only a realignment.
The intervention on excise of the fuels It was expected. The government had anticipated it, unleashing not a few controversyin the structural budget plan in September, setting the objective of a “alignment of the rates of the excise For Diesel And gas». Since then the measure has remained dead letter. He has returned to talk about it in recent weeks, in front of the urgency to find resources for the contract of public transport. And as per the script the measure has come, written black on white in the opinion of the Commission Finance of the Senate to the Legislative Decree on excise.
The commission “expresses favorable opinion” with the “condition” of “defining a tendential rapprochement, in an appropriate period of time and to the extent between 1 and 2 cents of euros, of the rates of theexcise applied to diesel and to the gas in order to take into account theenvironmental impact and economic of each product “. The resources will be destined for TPLcontinues the binding indication of Palazzo Madamaspecifying that to implement the measures will be, “evaluated the context of reference”, a special interministerial decree. The same indication also comes from the Commission Finance of the Chamber, which inserts the measure between the 13 “observations” that accompany the favorable opinion.
The excise of diesel and of the gas I am today equal to approx 62 and 73 cents per liter. The provision should translate into an increase in 1-2 cents for excise of Diesel and a drop in the same size as those on gas. An increase in taxation on Diesel Of 1 cent of eurocalculate the Codaconswould translate into a greater expenditure for a total of 245 million borne by the motorists owners of cars a diesel; 490 million In addition, if the increase was of 2 cents. A “sting”, defines it the Codaconsup 16.7 million Of Diesel car circulating in Italy.
The move of the government does not like to oppositions. «In the usual clever way the government, after denying weeks of wanting to do it, increases the excise on the Diesel», Attack the PD. Between fuels And bills, Melons “He reappears as’ Miss salassò.” “A real sting and a new tax for Italians,” he says AVS. “Just that Melons which from the opposition asked for the elimination of excise», Points out IV. The majority defends himself: «There is no increase in excise on fuels – explains the rapporteur of DLGS Antonio Trevisi (FI) – There is, on the other hand, a duty misalignment on the basis of the principle that those who less pollute, less pay “. The realignment, remember Giorgio Salvitti Of FDI“responds to a precise need for protection environmental”.
The increases of the cigarettes. Blonde most dear due to the effect of the increases of the maneuver 2023 revised with the maneuver 2024. The increases (the new prices are on the website of theMonopolies and customs agency and on that of the Tabaccai Federation) vary from 0.10 to 0.30 cents in package and do not concern all brands. More expensive also the chopped tobacco he is cigars.
A proposal, contained in an amendment of the Alloy which will be examined in DL Milleproroghewhich aims to extend the Quater scrapping. The amnesty that stopped at the folders of the June 30, 2020 It could thus be brought to the whole 2023.