One Calabrian municipality out of four, among those that would be entitled to it, has chosen to apply the tourist tax. This is what emerges from an analysis by the Centro studi enti locali based on data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Bank of Italy and Istat.
Out of a total of 404 entities in the region, 67 have received revenue from this tax from 2019 to 2003. And the 67 eligible municipalities, that is, those entitled to apply the tax, represent 25 percent of the total eligible ones, which amounts to 271 entities.. To date, according to current legislation, the tax can be established by provincial capitals and municipalities included in the regional lists of tourist locations or cities of art and by those that have their legal headquarters on the smaller islands or in whose territory there are smaller islands. In Calabria, the municipalities that took advantage of this possibility were 49 in 2019, 53 (in the two-year period 2020-2021), 62 in 2022 and 67 in 2023.
The regulation of the tourist tax, from what has emerged in relation to some anticipations circulated in recent days on a draft decree, could be the subject of a revision with the possibility of extending the application of the tax to all Italian municipalities.