Maneuver: Bellucci-Barbaro, ‘no to the application of VAT to third sector bodies’

“We will not stop fighting against the application of VAT to Third Sector Entities to defend the non-profit sector. A world, that of volunteering, which has once again shown its importance during the pandemic emergency. What happened yesterday in the Senate Budget Commission, with the approval of an amendment signed by the Pd which postpones the entry into force of the VAT regime for the Third Sector by two years, postpones and does not resolve a serious attack on the world of associations beyond to aggravate the situation of the sector since many associations, which had to understand whether to change their statute, with this sword of Damocles, will no longer want to adapt to the Third Sector Code “, so in a note Maria Teresa Bellucci, National Head of the Third Sector Department by Fratelli d’Italia and Claudio Barbaro, President of Asi. “As is well known, the law in question establishes for associations” the exclusion “of specific fees from the scope of application of VAT to the VAT” exemption “regime for services provided and goods sold by entities to own shareholders. This implies – explains the note – that the associations and members will have to face a series of obligations such as the opening of the VAT number, even for that activity that cannot be configured as commercial, invoicing and registration of operations. The change entails a series of burdens and problems for the non-profit world which will be subjected to obligations and fulfilments with significant and worrying repercussions especially for small organizations that are not prepared or structured to face the bureaucracy and costs of the new structure “.” A real inconceivable attack on a heritage made up of 360,000 organizations, a million operators, 5 million volunteers, who offer concrete social, health, educational, sporting and cultural answers to 30 million Italian citizens “, concludes the Note.