“Sicily is among the regions where the Imu, the municipal property tax, weighs the most in relation to the per capita economic capacity of the people. 7 percent. In the Imu/GDP table we are behind only Campania and Sardinia, but far from territories richer in opportunities and resources such as Piedmont and Lombardy, at 4 percent, without mentioning Val d’Aosta and Trentino which are at 3 and 2 percent.”
This was stated by Luisella Lionti, general secretary of Uil Sicily, commenting on the 2024 report edited by the national economic, fiscal and social security policies service of the “people’s board”.
“With the indisputable strength of numbers, our organization wants once again to denounce how in our country there exists an unresolved, increasingly serious and intolerable emergency of fiscal fairness which affects weaker territories from an employment, economic and social point of view. – he adds – Sicily, above all. I believe there is little to discuss regarding the study by the Uil Fiscal Policy Service, led by the confederal secretary Vera Buonomo, according to which the higher the IMU/GDP percentage, the higher the portion of the average income allocated by residents to pay the tax could be . With a lower spending capacity for other needs”.
