the actual pressure at 48.3%

Italian taxpayers loyal to tax authorities have a "real" tax burden of 48.3%: 6.1 points higher than the official tax rate. And although it has been falling since 2014, the threshold reached this year is still unjustified. Say that's the CGIA's study desk. "If too much tax – says the coordinator of the CGIA office Paolo Zabeo – we add the oppressive bureaucracy, the inefficiency of part of our public administration and the infrastructure gap that separates us from our main economic competitors, not c "It is surprising, as has emerged in recent days, that there is some discomfort especially among entrepreneurs in the Northeast, among others, because of all these problems, we continue to stay the bottom of the EU in terms of direct investment is. "

According to the OECD, the stock of foreign direct investment in Italy in relation to GDP was 21.4% in 2017. No other European country has registered a result inferior to ours.In other words, we continue to be unattractive.However, according to the secretary of the CGIA, Renato Mason, there is something else. "In addition to the huge economic effort that this year the taxpayers are expected to support, the Italians must also bear an additional cost related to the difficulties to fulfill the tax obligations, according to the latest data from the World Bank, in Italy 238 hours a year to pay taxes, against 139 requests in France and 110 in the United Kingdom, a gap which makes us aware of the extent to which the bureaucracy in our country has lengthened its tentacles in an unjustified way. "

Although declining compared to previous years, the overall weight of the tax remains at an unbearable level.The CGIA also points out that the official tax pressure calculated by Istat (expected in 2018 to 42.2% ) in line with Eurostat's methodology and finally, by 2019 the tax burden could be increased both because GDP growth is constrained by all international organizations and because of a possible increase in the tax levy. indeed, if we did not find 12.4 billion euros, from 1 January 2019 the VAT rate, currently 10%, would increase to 11.5%, likewise the current 22% would even 24.2%.