Fines, here are the increases from 2025: they will be adjusted for inflation. “Increase up to 17%”. This is how they change

Increase in traffic fines up to 17.6% from January. Penalties for using a cell phone while driving and for running red lights they could reach almost 200 euroswhile they would take over the fine is one thousand euros for exceeding the speed limit by more than 60 km/h. This is the likely impact of the expected change in inflation Traffic Lawswhich was blocked for four years. Therefore, if the executive, and in particular the Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini, does not intervene with a new stop on the increases, as rejected by consumer associations, there will be a real stalemate Italian drivers who break the rules.

Cities, for their part, could benefit income growing: from January to today the fines have been worth more than 1.4 billion and by the end of the year we could reach close to the 1.8 billion already registered in 2023. With the possible increases, therefore, next year we could cross the 2 billion mark. A blessing for cities, with budgets that are difficult to close between inflation and new budget cuts on money for local authorities.

According to a report by Assutenti, from the beginning of the year Milan (136 million), Rome (97 million) and Turin (48.7 million) are the cities that collected the most taxes. Immediately after are: Florence (30.9 million), Genoa (28.6 million), Naples (25 million), Bologna (20 million), Verona (17.6 million), Palermo (15 million), Venice (13.8 million), Bari (5.6 million) and Catania (5 million).

THE ISLAND

The National Union of Consumers recalls how the renewal was postponed in the last two years to avoid aggravation after the Covid epidemic, but now there are risks – without government intervention – collecting and triggering automatically considering the inflation not only of the two-year period 2022 -2024 going forward. , but also the previously blocked one (2020-2022).

Article 195 of the Highway Code provides that “the amount of administrative monetary sanctions is renewed every two years in an amount equal to the total change, determined by Istat, of the price index consumers for the families of workers and workers (national average) that occurred in the previous two years.” A change that the government had finally decided to block with the 2023 budget law, until the end of 2024.

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However, Assoutenti estimates a more reasonable increase of 6%. If that were so it would be a an increase of 10 euros in the fine for using a mobile phone while driving, from 165 to 175 euros, or 3 euros for one to prevent parking, from 42 to 45 euros.

Instead the speed limits from 10 to 40 kilometers would go from 173 to 183 euros (+10 euros), and from 40 to 60 kilometers per hour from 543 to 576 euros (+33 euros). The final fine reached 896 euros if the speed limit was exceeded by more than 60 kilometers per hour (+ 51 euros). “It is important to prosecute traffic violations that endanger public safety, but increasing the amount of fines will certainly not ensure greater safety on our roads ,” said the president of Assoutenti, Gabriele Melluso, proposing two extraordinary things. – a one-year education plan in high schools and asking for a new ban on promotions.