“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 Service for Economic, Fiscal and Social Security Policies of the “People’s Union”.
Lionti, “There is a serious unresolved emergency”
Luisella Lionti states: “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 equity which affects weaker territories from an employment point of view, economic, social. 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”.
“Here the tax is more burdensome”
“The tax issue – concludes Luisella Lionti – is one of the reasons for the great Uil mobilization, which is still engaging us in recent months due to the coherent and courageous choice of our leader Pierpaolo Bombardieri. With the IMU Report we demonstrate, if ever there was any need, how burdensome this tax is here more than elsewhere in a moment of extreme difficulty for many. From Sicily, therefore, we want to relaunch with particular conviction and determination the request for structural reform of the land register coming in these hours from the confederal secretary of our organization, Vera Buonomo, to guarantee fairer taxation on properties that takes into account the territorial economic specificities by correcting the disparity and ensuring a withdrawal proportionate to the real value of the properties as well as to each individual’s ability to pay”.
“We are waiting for answers from the institutions, but we are appealing to local authorities”
“We await – concludes the general secretary of Uil Sicily – concrete responses from national political institutions. In the meantime, however, we appeal to local authorities to make the upcoming deadlines more sustainable, using this revenue well to ensure services and assistance are finally in line with the legitimate expectations of taxpayers. Who are, for the most part, employed and retired workers.”
