Approximately 43 million euros. This is how much the Municipalities of Sardinia and Sicily (merged as Islands) have collected from the tourist tax paid by tourists.
This is one of the data provided by Massimo Feruzzi, head of the JFC national observatory on the tourist tax , on the occasion of the hearings on the revision of the tax before the Sixth Finance Commission of the Senate.
Feruzzi underlined how 2023 brought a significant treasure into the coffers of Italian municipalities thanks to the tourist tax, with collections well above the already positive forecasts at the beginning of the year, when a collection of 678 million euros was predicted. «In fact, in the year just ended , 702 million were reached, with a growth figure of +13.4% compared to the previous year and +12.8% compared to the pre-pandemic year, i.e. 2019» , explained Feruzzi.
In December 2023 - according to JFC - there were a total of 1,013 municipalities in which tourists had to pay the tourist tax, in addition to the provincial areas of Trento and Bolzano. Of these, as much as 36.8% - over 258 million - was collected by the Municipalities of the regions of central Italy, namely Lazio, Tuscany, Marche and Umbria; 27.9% from the regions of north-eastern Italy (Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Trentino Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia Giulia) with a total revenue of approximately 196 million, while north-western Italy (Piedmont, Valle d'Aosta, Lombardy and Liguria) collected just over 126 million, therefore 18% of the national total; southern Italy (Puglia, Abruzzo, Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Molise) 11.1%, equal to approximately 78 million, and finally, as mentioned, the two largest islands, Sardinia and Sicily, which have a share of 6.2% of the national total, equal to approximately 43 million.
(Unioneonline/lf)