Budget law, FI: ‘No to the increase in tax on short-term rentals’

Rome, 20 October. (LaPresse) – “Increasing taxes on those who rent a single residential unit to tourists is a mistake because it penalises the income of individuals, limits tourism in inland areas such as villages and encourages tax evasion. It is wrong to raise funds for the budget from families who want to rent their mountain home or a room belonging to their child who has gone to study abroad to holidaymakers. At the same time, protecting residents from mixing with tourists in their apartment buildings requires other measures: standardising the National Identification Code for short-term rentals, supporting traditional hotel businesses, encouraging professional tourism training, and restructuring the tourist tax on rates rather than on accommodation categories. For these reasons, Forza Italia’s Tourism Department is opposed to the proposal to increase the flat tax on short-term rentals from 21% to 26% contained in the draft of the next financial manoeuvre’. This was stated in a note by Carlo De Romanis, Head of Forza Italia’s Tourism Department.