{"id":1970,"date":"2012-06-18T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2012-06-14T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T10:35:33","slug":"il-costo-della-benzina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/il-costo-della-benzina\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Costo della Benzina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a brand new Italian word that has come into fashion in the last few months: l\u2019accisa<\/strong>. I came across this word for the first time last November, just after the floods which brought so much damage to Liguria and Toscana, when the President of the Regione Toscana announced the introduction of un\u2019accisa sulla benzina per pagare i danni creati dall\u2019alluvione <\/strong>(an accisa<\/strong> on fuel to pay for the damage created by the floods).\u00a0Then again just\u00a0a few days ago the Government announced another accisa<\/strong> of two cents on fuel to help the population of Emilia Romagna which was hit by the earthquakes of 20th and the 29th of May. However, according to my Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana Treccani<\/strong>, accisa <\/strong>is actually an\u00a0obsolete word.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what exactly\u00a0is l\u2019accisa<\/strong>? Well, it\u2019s a type of tax, of course, but it differs from IVA <\/strong>(Imposta sul Valore Aggiunto <\/strong>= Value Added Tax) in that it\u00a0is a fixed amount per quantity, e.g. two cents per litre. Apart from the petrol, it\u2019s also applied\u00a0to gas, electricity, alcohol, and tobacco. L\u2019accisa <\/strong>is normally brought in\u00a0as a\u00a0temporary measure when there is\u00a0an emergency, such as floods\u00a0or earthquakes, in order to provide an immediate extra income for the government. But as is often the case here in Italy, there is nothing more permanent than\u00a0that which\u00a0is meant to be temporary! So it\u2019s not surprising therefore,\u00a0that these last two accise<\/strong> have joined a long list of pre-existing emergency taxes, some of which date back more than thirty years! Let\u2019s have a look at what we are actually paying for when we buy fuel, starting from the most recent tax:<\/span><\/p>\n

May 2012, Earthquake in Emilia, 2 cents<\/span><\/p>\n

December 2011, Decreto Salva Italia<\/strong> (Decree to save the Italian economy), 8 cents<\/span><\/p>\n

November 2011, Floods in Liguria and Tuscany, 0,89 cents<\/span><\/p>\n

2011, Emergency immigrants from the civil war in Libya, 4 cents<\/span><\/p>\n

2011, Financing Arts and Culture, 0,73 cents<\/span><\/p>\n

2004, Renewal of contracts for the staff of Public Transport, 2 cents<\/span><\/p>\n

1996, Peace Keeping Campaign in Bosnia, 22 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1983, Peace Keeping Campaign in Lebanon, 205 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1980, Earthquake in Irpinia, Campania, 75 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1976, Earthquake in Friuli, 99 lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1968, Earthquake in Belice, Sicily, 10 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1966, Florence Flood, 10 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1963, Vajont\u2019s dam disaster, 10 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1956, Suez canal crisis, 14 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

1935, War in Abyssinia, 1.9 Lire<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, the first accisa<\/strong> was introduced by Mussolini 77 years ago, and we are still paying for it! The\u00a0cumulative cost of these accise <\/strong>is of 26 cents, and to add salt to the wound we even\u00a0have to pay tax\u00a0on the taxes because in\u00a0fact all of\u00a0these accise<\/strong> are then subject to IVA<\/strong>, which is presently 21 per cent!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here in Italy we currently pay around\u00a01 euro 80 cents\u00a0for every litre of petrol \u2026 ma pensa un po\u2019!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a brand new Italian word that has come into fashion in the last few months: l\u2019accisa. I came across this word for the first time last November, just after the floods which brought so much damage to Liguria and Toscana, when the President of the Regione Toscana announced the introduction of un\u2019accisa sulla…<\/p>\n

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