(Finance) – In the first quarter of 2022 the tax revenue increased by over 13 billion (+ 13.7%) amounting to 113.4 billion euros. This was announced by the MEF, explaining that “the significant increase recorded in the quarter is influenced by both carry-over of positive effects on revenues which were determined starting from 2021, both from the effects of the “Relaunch decree” he was born in “August decree”who had ordered, in 2020, the extensions of the suspension of payments and subsequently, in 2021, the resumption of the same, allowing taxpayers to pay them in installments “.
In the month of March the tax receipts were equal to 34.4 billion euros (+2,245 million euros, + 7%). In particular, direct taxes decreased by 2.7% and indirect taxes recorded a sharp increase of 15.7%.
In the first quarter, the direct taxes stood at 63.1 billion euros, with a 8.7% increasebenefiting from the increase in revenue fromIRPEF (+ 3.9%) and, in particular, the withholdings on the income of employees in the private sector (+ 5.5%). Significant increases also for the substitute tax on income from capital and on capital gains (+ 180.2%) due to the favorable trend of the asset management market in 2021 and the substitute tax on the asset value pension funds (+103). Revenues are also growing IRES (+ 5%).
The indirect taxes in the quarter they reached 50.2 billion euros, with a increase of 20.5%. The positive trend was contributed byVAT (+ 22.8%), both the component relating to internal trade (+ 18.2%) and the VAT on imports (+ 57.8%) due to the trend in oil prices.insurance tax (+ 3.2%) andregistration tax (+ 9.1%) but not thestamp duty (-6.3%).
Revenue relating to games amount to 3.6 billion euros (+ 38.2%) and those deriving from verification and control activities amounted to 3,285 million euros (+ 84.3%).