(Finance) – Government and Anci have reached an agreement on the revision of the tourist tax. The agreement was reached during the meeting between the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchèthe Deputy Minister of Economy, Maurizio Leoand the president of Anci, Roberto Skin. “The parties – as stated in a note – have agreed on the need to standardize and simplify the discipline throughout the national territory and to make it applicable to all municipalities on a voluntary basis. At the center of the discussion is the issue of making thetourist tax purpose tax to return money to the tourism sector”.
“At the centre of the debate – the note explains – is the issue of making the tourist tax a tax with a specific purpose to return money to the tourism sector, guaranteeing the areas and the possibility, as requested by Anci, to also allocate the tax to urban decorum And safety; a technical table will be convened for this next week. At the same time, the table will study the price ranges to make the tax proportional to the cost of the room and payable per person”.
“The intention is to rationalize the charges declarative at the expense of hoteliers and at the same time allow municipalities to carry out checks on the financial component. Uniform rules are needed throughout the national territory”, commented Deputy Minister of Economy Maurizio Leo. “Thetourism industry it is important for the GDP and also for the municipalities and the money must therefore be released into the sector. We must not make residents experience tourism as a threat but as an opportunity. We must not be ideological when we sit down at the table to find solutions. We are trying to distribute this tax better”, added the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè.
“We appreciate the decision to expand the audience to all municipalities because it is right to give opportunities to everyone. We share the theme of simplification and find guarantees to protect hoteliers and Mayors”, commented the president of Anci Roberto Pella.
Against the agreement theNational Consumers Union. “No to a generic extension of the tourist tax to all municipalities. If tourists are squeezed in this way, without a strategy and logic, they will increasingly go abroad, especially Italians”, he declared Maximilian Givepresident of the UNC. “You can’t raise a tax at random! Leaving the ball to the Municipalities, always ready to cash in and hunt for money, especially when they don’t have to tax their fellow citizens – Dona concluded – doesn’t mean having a strategy but just washing your hands of it like Pontius Pilate”.