"The 'Covid tax' appears in Italy, a tax from 2 to 4 euros applied by merchants to their customers, and included directly as a surcharge in the receipt, to finance the higher costs incurred by businesses due to the coronavirus". Codacons writes this, which for days has received consumer reports about price increases and original items of expenditure applied by merchants and speaks of "a real illegal far west that could configure the crime of fraud, and against which Codacons lodges a complaint with the Guardia di Finanza and the Antitrust Authority ". "Numerous consumers have reported to Codacons a surcharge, on average from 2 to 4 euros, applied in particular by hairdressers and beauty salons to their customers - says the president Carlo Rienzi - A tax included in the receipt with the entry" Covid ", and that would be imposed as a mandatory contribution to support the expenses of the operators for sanitizing and securing the premises ". "We have also recorded - adds Rienzi - cases of beauty centers that oblige customers to buy a disposable kit consisting of kimonos and slippers on site, at the modest sum of 10 euros - adds Rienzi - Who does not pay this" tax "and does not purchase the kit, cannot undergo treatments, always for Covid needs ".
Fipe: 'On rising fuss, we fight to survive' - "First untori, now speculators. We cannot accept to be treated like this! At this moment public exercises have a single priority: to bring people back to the premises ensuring maximum safety. Attacking the whole sector indiscriminately, raising an unjustified fuss over the price increase, is not only questionable in terms of responsibility but also in legal terms, that's why as a Federation we will put in place every initiative to protect the image of the category: Many entrepreneurs have reopened to give a signal of trust while being aware that in many cases the costs will be much higher than the revenues due to the few customers, other than higher prices ". So Aldo Cursano, Vicar Vice President of Fipe - Italian Federation of Public Exercises, comments in a note the recent news on the rise in coffee prices in bars.