In Milan, more and more financial capital in Italy, every now and then someone remembers that “there are the rich” and instead of being happy, he decides that they must be punished.
That someone, almost always, is the Democratic Party, which with the fake sobriety also this time proposed to tax the scrolls who decide to transfer the residence to the Lombard capital by exploiting the subsidized regime of the flat tax. The idea, advanced by the Pd Padroup to the Finance Commission of the Senate Cristina Tajani and strongly promoted by Pierfrancesco Majorino, leader Pd in the Lombardy Region, is to impose an additional overview of 12.5% or 15% to foreigners who have decided to transfer the tax residence to Italy to be allocated to the municipal coffers to finance social services.
Once again the left launches into his favorite sport: hit what works. The flat tax regime for the new super rich residents has attracted thousands of millionaires and billionaires from all over the world. Capitals, consumption, investments, renovations, employment. In a country with an overwhelming tax burden, some thanks to the concessions has finally chosen to bring money instead of running away elsewhere.
The objective declared for the destination of the proceeds deriving from the tax is as always worthy of the most poignant pages of a pink novel: “help unaccompanied foreign minors” or “strengthen the structures of social services”.
But the reality is much more squalid: the five million euros that would be collected by the maneuver are not even a drop in the sea of the municipal budget of Milan. Yet, to chase this handful of pennies, there is a risk of conveying yet another message of the state. But what does it matter? Just be able to say “we taxed” them to the friends of Saturday afternoon events in Missori.
It is not surprising and we always return to a point that is now a mantra: the Italian left, an orphan of credible ideologies and unable to propose structural reforms, has been taking refuge for decades in the evergreen tax key. Every social problem? A tax. Any inequality? A tax. Every crisis? Another tax.
Those who work and produce must “return”, those who arrive with the money in the pocket must “share”. Too bad that the only effect of this continuous drainage is to discourage the initiative, mobility, growth. And all this is tragicomic: Milan is chosen by great assets not for the climate or for maranza, but for the tax opportunity. And precisely that only competitive advantage is now trying to weaken by ignoring a trivial economic law: wealth moves where it can generate more.
As soon as you change music, Scroogers take the first flight to Lisbon, Dubai or London. But the proponents of equity at all costs this do not understand it: for them the growth is suspicious, luxury is fault, and those who are successful must be penalized. Milan, meanwhile, will continue to become an increasingly dear and increasingly international city because the demand is very high.
And trying to implement parasitic logics on foreign capital simply risks undermining the progress that is investing one of the few economically flourishing poles of our country.
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