The rents of Italian tenants are likely to suffer a sharp rise.
Unfortunately, at a time that is certainly not easy for families, bad news arrives from the tax reform.
The tax reform wanted by the government would see an increase in the flat rate tax dal 21% al 26%. This is a real sting on rents paid by tenants.
The sting on tenants
Let’s try to understand why. Currently homeowners renting an apartment have to pay a flat rate tax of 21%. So the rental tax is currently 21%. But with the tax reform that is being discussed the dry coupon it will probably go down to 26%.
A really important increase because the dry coupon had the task of bringing out the many black contracts. According to experts this increase from 21 to 26% will be one strong sting on homeowners who, moreover, already pay a large IMU and who fear that the IMU will also be increased following the land registry reform. So now it is very likely that homeowners to be able to return the sting on the flat rate coupon at 26% can increase the rents. But the last word has not yet been said.
Strong increases are expected for rents
In fact, if the center-left pushes for the dry coupon to 26% the center-right makes the barricades. Ultimately, there is a risk that in addition to the homeowners, tenants will pay a decidedly weak segment of the population. But what can happen if the flat rate coupon really passes to 26%? Renting a house would become considerably more inconvenient. Indeed the costs for the management of a property are significantly increasing among increasingly expensive jobs, IMU that will almost certainly have increased heavily and now also this probable reform of the flat rate tax.
Sting coming up
It is therefore evident that paying rents will become more expensive because to make sense of renting an apartment clearly the rent will have to be pushed up. The center-left sees this tax as a tax of a social nature that hits the richest classes to allow the state to help the poorest. However the effect indirect on tenants is likely to transform this tax into a boomerang effect that can hit and are precisely those tenants who already now they struggle to pay rents.
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