Return to income meter: from spa to mobile phones and mortgage, Mef starts a comparison

From expenses for food consumption to health care but also mobile phones, restaurants, spas, mortgages or insurance: the Mef launches a public consultation on the income meter. Reserved for the most representative consumer associations, the comparison focuses on the decree scheme to identify the inductive content of the elements indicative of contributory capacity, aimed at the synthetic determination of the incomes of individuals relating to the tax years starting from 2016, the so-called income meter . On the basis of the provision in question, by decree of the Minister of Economy, to be published in the Official Gazette every two years, after consulting Istat and the most representative consumer associations, the indicative elements of contributory capacity are identified, through the analysis of Significant samples of taxpayers, also differentiated according to the family unit and the geographical area to which they belong. There are four clusters of expenses taken into consideration (consumption, investments, savings, expenses for transfers) to be crossed with a ‘grid’ of 11 types of families from 5 geographical areas (Center, Islands, Northeast, Northwest and South). The consultation will close on 15 July. After the consultation has been launched, there is no shortage of consumers among consumers to ‘handle with care’. “Beware of the Trilussa chicken! A deviation of 20% of the Istat averages should not be enough to trigger an assessment. Already in the past, after the intervention of the Privacy Guarantor, it was decided not to make the Istat averages compete or to the selection of taxpayers or to form the object of the dispute “, warns Massimiliano Dona, president of the National Consumers Union. “To give a practical example. According to the data released last Wednesday by Istat, on average a family spends 42.54 euros per month on alcoholic beverages and tobacco, equal to 510.48 euros per year. family no one smokes and they are teetotal the expenses are equal to zero. For clothing and footwear, 87.98 euros per month are spent, equal to 1055.76 euros per year. It is possible that a deviation of just 211 euros, 20%, is enough to make the tax authorities suspicious? It is enough that a member of the family buys a coat that year, that is, decides to make a typical one-off expense, to distort the average and exceed the ceiling “continues Dona.” As for the expenses for medicines, establish the principle that the sicker one is, the richer he is would be singular. Even stranger to go and see the electricity and gas bills, since poor families often pay more for the same needs, as they do not have energy class A appliances. not having redone the fixtures and so on hand energy poverty “concludes Dona.