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Tomorrow, December 31, the procedure will end I entered Last March by the government of Mario Draghi to reduce the price of fuel through the so-called “Discount on production feeThe 2023 budget law does not provide for any extension of the measure: it means that unless new decisions are taken in the matter from January 1, 2023, gasoline, diesel and LPG may cost 18.3 cents per liter.
Excise duty is a tax on certain products (fuel in this case): it remains unchanged as prices increase and is included by the seller in the final price of the product. When there is an increase in prices, as happened during this year, the government can decide to reduce the excise tax to reduce it: the tool for doing this is the so-called mobile consumption tax, a mechanism introduced in 2008 precisely in the face of a significant growth in oil prices.
Essentially, the measure requires the government to use the increased value-added tax revenues to finance a decrease in excise duties, thus curbing price hikes. Last March, the Draghi government did just that: With the additional revenue of 500 million euros in value-added tax obtained from the price hike, it financed the reduction in the 25-cent excise duty per liter for petrol and diesel (which includes VAT). . has become 30.5 cents) and 8.5 cents per kilogram for LPG (10.37 with VAT). Last November, Meloni’s government lowered the cuts to 15 cents a liter (18.3 with VAT) for petrol and diesel, while LPG fell from 8.5 to 5.1 per kilogram.
In the budget law for 2023, agreed yesterday, The government maintained a series of measures to contain the effects of energy price increases, but did not include consumption tax deductions. For a full tank of 50 liters, the complete elimination of the deduction on the production fee will result in an increase of about 9 euros per tank.
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