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Sbigottimento di Assiterminal for the green light to the amendment that introduces a contribution on the container in arrival and departure in the ports
Logistic Italian would be a matter itself - he has denounced the association - of the umpteenth blow to the competitiveness of the harbour system and
December 3, 2019
Sunday the Commission Finances of the Chamber, continuing the examination of the bill 124/2019 "urgent Dispositions in tax matters and for indifferibili requirements", between the emendative proposals approved of has given the go-ahead free to the proposal to introduce a contribution on the container full and empty disembarked and boarded in the Italian ports to the aim to equip the Agency of Customs and the Monopolies of suitable instruments to strengthen the vigilance on the goods. A proposal that has enraged the Italian Association Terminalisti Harbour (Assiterminal), second which it is "absurd to preview an ulterior increase of the costs on the goods".
The specific amendment that "the Agency of Customs and the Monopolies, by means of the resource to techniques and instruments to innovative technology, proceeds to the strengthening of the vigilance on the goods" and will be able to make it "without new or puts up burdens for the public finance and so as to guarantee puts up entered for the budget of the State" if. "simplifying the implementations weighing on the operators", it will come "instituted a contribution which unified on the container disembarked and boarded in the ports of the State, even if not containing goods".
The precise amendment that the which unified, "assessed contribution, liquidated and collected from the Agency of Customs and the Monopolies with the modalities previewed for the border rights", it would have between the objectives that of the cover of the necessary costs so that the Agency of Customs achieves the objectives of strengthening of the vigilance on the goods "in the maximum measure of 75 million euros for the first year of application of the cited regulations and 150 million euros for the next years". The provision previews "facilities for the container travelling with engine".
Manifesting sbigottimento for the approval in Commission Finances of the amendment to the fiscal bill that - it has emphasized - "in fact increases the total costs weighing on the import/export of the goods", Assiterminal has denounced that "if such a provision had to pass would be be a matter of the umpteenth blow to the competitiveness of the harbour and logistic system of our Country".
The association of the Italian terminalisti has specified that it does not discuss the merit about the provision: "the Agency of Customs - it has evidenced Assiterminal - carries out a role that we respect and that promuoviamo, but - it has specified the association - the resources must be searched in order "to strengthen the vigilance on the goods" in the "entered normals" of the state treasury; same observation is worth for the forecast to reach to the resources for the autonomy financial institution of the Harbour Authorities and financing of the realization of works in the ports (art.18 second, law 84/94) in order to refinance Uirnet".
"Such provisions - it has found moreover Assiterminal - seem to be decontestualizzati from the general scene: we already suffer on the topic from infrastructures (from Liguria facts and Venetian they are under observation of all, in order to only cite the more recent examples)".
The association of the terminalisti therefore has asked "the participation for Minister De Micheli so as the direction cabin on the thematic ones of the taxation of the concessori canons and the regulations on the harbour concessions. We sure wish - it has concluded Assitermnal - a process of "simplification of the implementations weighing on the operators", but not sure in the terms previewed from similar amendments that they gush who knows from which economic political vision and ask therefore are written off".
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