The new council of the Municipality of Naples headed by the mayor Gaetano Manfredi is working on the Pact for Naples and also, consequently, onuse of state funding provided for by the 2022 Finance Law for our city, among others.
The meeting of the Budget Commission discussed important issues such asincrease in concession and rental fees, but also ofadditional personal income tax, of the collection of credits, of a new boarding tax, of the management of real estate assets, such as public housing, and the reorganization of subsidiaries.
One of the main purposes is to increase the revenue of the municipality considering that a per capita deficit of over 700 euros has been estimated in Naples.
At the national level, thedisbursement of 2 billion and 270 million euros for four cities including Naples, a contribution that will be delivered in 21 years until 2042. Most, however, will be concentrated in the first 4 years and it will be the future State-City Conference to define the details. It will arrive in Naples a percentage between 45 and 50%, therefore around 1,2 or 1,3 billion euros.
The new price increases for the Municipality of Naples
In the meeting of the Budget Commission, the introduction of the following new increases was discussed:
- the airport and port boarding tax;
- the increase in the concession and rental fees;
- increase in the municipal personal income tax surcharge.
With these operations the purpose is cash in on 300 million in about 20 years that will be added to state funding and the Municipality will have to start a challenging path in this sense.
The boarding tax
We do not know exactly how much this boarding tax would be for both the Capodichino airport and the Port of Naples as it will have to be discussed, but in November a Save-Naples amendment was filed in the Senate which decreed the maximum amount. to 1 €. THE'amendment was later canceled precisely because there will be this allocation for cities with bad accounts, such as Naples.
Nevertheless, with the Pact for Naples we are talking about in this article, the council wants to insert the boarding tax and, if the figures remain those of the previous amendment, it could be:
- a figure of maximum 1 euro plus boarding fees for each passenger departing fromCapodichino airport;
- the same amount for those who embark on ferries and port ships;
- will excluding commuters who have to go to the islands for work reasons.
Municipal Irpef surcharge and grave transactions
Also in the Pact for Naples there was talk of the increase in concession and rental fees which will increase.
Furthermore, it will be the municipal personal income tax surcharge was also increased. To understand us better:
- Irpef is the tax on the Income of Individuals and is paid on the basis of rates, ie brackets, according to one's annual income;
- the additional is the amount of tax that those who are required to pay the personal income tax owe to the municipality in which they have their tax domicile, again on the basis of tax rates;
- here, for the Municipality of Naples an increase of this additional is expected.
The Pact for Naples also provides grave transactions with creditors to which 40-80% of the credits will go. It means that the creditors of the Municipality of Naples:
- they can request the grave transaction;
- the grave transaction occurs when none of the parties involved in a given legal situation can advance other disputes and has nothing more to claim;
- therefore, the commercial creditors of the municipality will be recognized a value between 40 and 80%, depending on the length of the credit;
- those who do not participate will not have the right to credit.
The positives: hires and better reorganizations
There are also positives to this Pact, not just tax increases. In fact, there are:
- fixed-term hiring;
- an improvement of public services;
- lower expenses in the organization of offices and in personnel management;
- also a requalification of the assets through concessions;
- redevelopment of real estate assets to be combined with a better alienation policy.
Stop the sale of public housing: enhance real estate assets
This aspect deserves further study because the asset management was often aimed at sales to restore the predissesto, but now it will not continue like this. Well, there will be one stop above all to the sale of public housing.
Assets need to be managed better, enhancing it with concessions and redevelopments, as declared by the Councilor for the Budget Pier Paolo Baretta, while the disposals, that is the sales, must be thought more carefully.
The municipal heritage is more than 60000 unit divided into degraded, popular, prestigious and historical, the one available is 30000 properties with a value of about 5 billion euros. A new census will be made for the unavailable one.
When the Pact for Naples will be defined
This pact will begin to better define itself from 21st January, when there will be discussion in the City Council, and in the text ofagreement with the Draghi government by 15 February.
Instead, by 31 March there will be the State-City Conference for the distribution of the funds to be divided between Naples, Palermo, Reggio Calabria and Turin.
