44% of taxpayers, who declare 4% of total income tax, are in the class up to 15,000 euros; 50% of taxpayers rank between 15,000 and 50,000 euros, declaring 56% of the total income tax, while only about 6% of taxpayers declare more than 50,000 euros, paying 40% of the total income tax. This is what emerges from the MEF data on the 2018 tax returns. Taxpayers with a total income greater than 300 thousand euros are instead 0.1% of the total.
The total total income declared by the Italians in 2018 amounts to about 880 billion euros ( +42 billion over the previous year, + 5%) for an average value of 21,660 euros, an increase of 4.8% compared to the average overall income declared the previous year. The MEF communicates this on the basis of the tax returns filed in 2019. The territorial analysis confirms that the region with the highest overall average income is Lombardy (25,670 euros), followed by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (24,760 euros), while Calabria has the lowest average income (15,430 euros); also in 2018, therefore, the distance between the average income of the central and northern regions and that of the southern regions remains substantial.
Self-employed workers earn on average more than twice as many employees. This is what emerges from the MEF data on the 2018 tax returns presented last year. The highest average income is self-employment, equal to 46.240 euros, while the average income declared by entrepreneurs (owners of sole proprietorships) is 20.940 euros. The average income declared by employees is € 20,820, that of pensioners at € 17,870.
There are 12.6 million Italians who do not pay one euro of Irpef . This is what emerges from the MEF data on the 2018 tax returns. Over 10.2 million subjects have a net tax of zero, "mainly taxpayers with income levels included in the exemption thresholds, or those whose gross tax is zeroed due to the deductions recognized by our legal system ". Considering the subjects whose net tax is fully compensated by the 80 euro bonus, the taxpayers who do not actually pay the personal income tax rise to about 12.6 million.
The beneficiaries of the 80 euro bonus were around 12.1 million in 2018 (+ 3.3% compared to 2017) for an amount of about 9.9 billion euro (+ 3.6% compared to 2017). This is what emerges from the data of the Ministry of Economy on the tax returns presented last year. The percentage of beneficiaries of the bonus compared to the total employees is 54% in the whole national territory. About 2.4 million people (20% of those who are entitled to the bonus) have a bonus due for an amount greater than the net tax due in the year. "This implies that for these subjects - explains the MEF - the bonus represented a monetary transfer for the portion exceeding the net tax. Overall the bonus part corresponding to a monetary transfer was equal to 1 billion euro".