(Jamma) They call it the "Roma model". And this is what the government is looking closely at in order to solve the Imu puzzle. That is, how to abolish it on first homes, as requested by the PDL, without reopening the abyss of debt. Which, among other things, European accountants would not allow. In the capital, Mayor Alemanno has effectively canceled the tax for 376 families. Immediate abolition because they will no longer pay anything from June. How they did it explains Andrea Augello, PDL senator but above all the "financial" mind of the mayor. «The operation was possible thanks to an extra revenue of 116 million euros, the result of the cadastral revision imposed by a law of the Berlusconi government in 2004. And which re-establishes a principle of fairness: a 100 square meter house in Piazza Navona cannot have the same value as one equal to Fidene». The update involved 170 properties, of which 70 are first homes, 20 second homes while the rest are commercial buildings, shops, hotels and offices, almost all in the centre. «In real terms – continues Andrea Augello – only slightly more than 8% of prime houses have been updated». But those numbers made it possible to exempt a third of Romans from paying the IMU. That is, households that have an Isee income of up to 15 thousand euros. «But be careful – warns Andrea Augello again – they are families that have an annual salary that is “really” between 30 and 40 thousand euros, only that figure is “cut down” because there are dependent children, unemployed or disabled. For example, these are households in which the father is a middle-level state employee and the wife perhaps works part-time». In short, not on the poverty line as it might seem.
An operation which, according to the PDL senator, can easily be exported nationwide. «We as Pdl have presented a series of proposals which guaranteed coverage of the approximately 4 billion that is needed to remove the tax on first homes. And a large part of it came from gambling levies. If the government doesn't feel like cutting the Imu completely right away, it can think of what we did in Rome, exempting at least the families with the lowest Isee incomes». However, the costs for an operation of this type would not seem prohibitive. "It is a question of placing stakes that fluctuate between 800 million and one billion and 200 million - explains Andrea Augello again - But the social impact would be enormous because it would meet a segment of the population that is really in difficulty".
