(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 13 - The very strong recovery of tourist flows in Italy, more evident than ever in these days of Ferragosto, brings new life into the coffers of local administrations also thanks to the tourist tax.
To reckon - in a research that ANSA publishes in preview - is the National Observatory of Jfc on this tax that is paid in almost 970 municipalities: in 2020 the total collection was 192 million euros and in 2021 of 263 million, a real drop compared to the 622 million in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.
For 2022, on the other hand, they expect receipts of 472 million, equal to + 79.5% compared to last year.
"2022 does not only represent the year of the possible departure - explains Massimo Feruzzi, sole director of Jfce in charge of the Observatory - but also that of the return, for the Municipalities, to significant collections thanks to the stay tax. Without forgetting, of on the other hand, that the government has set up a fund with an endowment of 350 million for the partial recovery of the non-collection of the tourist tax and landing fee, and which has already recognized 75 million for these lower collections (of which 21.9 million are andatia Roma Capitale, 8.4 million in Milan, 5.8 million in Florence and 5.2 million in Venice), and that a further 75 million will be shortly distributed among all the municipalities, with the exception of those in the Province of Trento ".
Several municipal administrations are introducing this year - for the first time - the tourist tax.
From January it sipaga in Cremona, while in Reggio Emilia it came into force in February;
from June you pay in Tuglie and Selvino, from July in Pollica and Alliste, from August in Massarosa, in Gizzeria and in Ivrea, tourists will start paying it in September, in Capod'Orlando from October.
Meanwhile, it is also being discussed in Sulmona, Scansano and in other 28 municipalities.
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