To avoid the default of the cities with the most troubled accounts, the State is once again putting a hand to the wallet. But he won’t be the only one. The effort to close the chasms opened in the financial statements, supported by a fund worth 2.67 billion over 21 years, will also involve taxpayers and municipal suppliers. For the former, the additional personal income tax will be able to fly over the 8 per thousand ceiling, with an exception that does not include pre-established limits. Creditors will be required to waive part of their sums.
These are the pillars of the new municipal bailout anticipated in the Sole 24 Ore on Wednesday that the government included in the amendment to the maneuver. The measure, in the wake of a first aid of 150 million just awarded with the tax decree, concerns Naples, Turin, Palermo and Reggio Calabria. These are the capital municipalities of the metropolitan city in which the 2020 deficit exceeds the stellar threshold of 700 euros per inhabitant.
In Naples, almost 2.5 billion red
In Naples, red is worth 2.47 billion, Turin stands at 888 million, Palermo at 632 while Reggio Calabria stops (so to speak) at 339 million. The deficit in Rome is also impressive (507 million), but its per capita value does not go beyond € 180.5 against € 2,599 in Naples, € 1,938.4 in Reggio Calabria, € 1,035.5 in Turin and 960. , 8 of Palermo.
The state aid of the maneuver, therefore, is concentrated on these last four municipalities, in which 2.6 million Italians live. The distribution parameters look at the annual cost of the deficit adjustment and debt amortization, and are partially different from those just used for the 2021 support. With the old criteria, Naples would have about 1.5 billion and for Turin the allowance would be half a billion. The final figures will not be far off: Pierpaolo Baretta, now councilor for the budget in Naples, estimates aid of 1.3 billion and speaks of a “real turning point”.
The twenty-year support is offered, however, in exchange for the signing of an “Agreement for the settlement of the deficit and for the relaunch of investments” between the mayor and the prime minister. The agreement recalls the idea of the “Pact” to which the new mayor Gaetano Manfredi had subordinated his candidacy in Naples. But the Pact promised to Manfredi by Pd and M5S aimed at the state takeover of the city’s debt. The agreement proposed by the government goes in another direction.