(Finance) – The deputy general manager of Abi, Gianfranco Torrieroreplied to Unimpresa which in a paper defined the city as “heavenly”. pressure tax for Italian banks. “The official data on how much taxes banks pay in Italy – Torriero declared in a note – is known by the European Central Bank and from Bank of Italy as well as by the financial authorities, who have detailed information on all taxes paid, including deferred tax assetsof all Italian, European and international banks operating in Italy”.
The study of An enterprise he calculated that they amount to just 4.3 billion euros the sums paid into the State coffers by credit institutions in 2022 against 88.1 billion of “turnover”, of which 45.5 billion linked to loans (interest margin) and 25.4 billion of profit. Furthermore, in the last five years, total payments from the banking sector to the tax authorities amounted to 14.4 billion, or 19.3% of the profit achieved, totaling 74.9 billion.
“Those who, in the face of this evidence, accuse the government of demagoguery and populism, do not know what they are talking about. Our positions with respect to the action of the executive are neutral: if there is a need to criticize, we do not hold back, never. This time it seems more than right to support a measure that goes in the right direction and which indirectly pushes the banking sector to give back to the community a part of those benefits deriving from the ECB’s monetary policy”, declared the vice president of Unimpresa, Joseph Spadafora.