Do you know that from an ecological point of view, the discount on VAT and charges on electricity and gas bills is classified as a “subsidy”, and even worse, a “subsidy for fossils”?
They say : the increase in the price of fossil energy is positive, it is the goal of climate policies, it is necessary to discourage hydrocarbons even more; the rise is also the effect of the enhancement of CO2 and of the new social sensitivity that leads to a lack of hydrocarbons and distances from investments in reservoirs. Instead, they say that this relief subsidizes fossil fuels, which are the cause of the climate crisis, and slows down the ecological transition; the polluter pays.
Against the bill-saving decree, the usual grumblers are already beginning to storm social platforms with the ecological gastritis of subsidies that pollute. They are right: according to the ecological classification criteria, the cut in VAT to make methane bills less heavy is really classified as a subsidy. Worse. It is an environmentally harmful subsidy. The other instruments identified on Thursday 23 September by the Government to make the increases in electricity prices less bitter are classified as environmentally harmful subsidies. Certain classification criteria affirm this.
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Madamina, this is the catalog
The Ministry of the Environment – today of the Ecological Transition – periodically updates the Catalog of Sad and Saf , i.e. Environmentally Harmful Subsidies and Environmentally Friendly Subsidies. The cataloging of 171 items arises from the ethical assumption according to the effect attributed to the environment between the good incentives to be rewarded (the Saf), the bad subsidies to be punished (the Sad) or in the limbo of ambietly uncertain subsidies.
For example, petrol and diesel are penalized by very heavy tax disincentives ( about 200% compared to the industrial cost ), but the disincentive that affects diesel is defined as a “subsidy” equal to 5.15 billion because it is a little less severe than the excise tax that penalizes petrol, and is grouped among those that damage the environment (the diesel engine emits less CO2 but more fine dust than the petrol engine).
What does the bill saving decree say
What did the bill saving decree decide? To mitigate the furious increases in gas and electricity prices on international markets, the Government has decided to reduce VAT on gas supplies for “civil and industrial uses” from 10% to 5% for the three months of autumn.
For electricity, the bills for families with are lightened lower incomes .
For about 6 million very small and small businesses with low voltage users for 26 million households with meters up to 16.5 kilowatts (the classic one for an apartment is a 3 kilowatt contract) the rates relating to some general charges will be zeroed. system.
The other old and contested aid on light
Already today the old 10% subsidized VAT on household electricity is disputed, classified as a subsidy worth 1.77 billion in 2019.
The census sheet relating to reduced VAT on the electricity bill says: “The application of a reduced rate of VAT on energy products (electricity, natural gas, heating, oil and coal) for domestic use does not encourage efficient use / reduced energy, and the relative production, distribution and domestic use of energy can have a negative impact on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, acidification, depletion of non-renewable energy resources, etc. “.