Maritime property? A chaos (not only on the fees). Word of the Court of Auditors
What emerges from the report of the Court of Auditors "The management of revenues deriving from state-owned maritime assets".
The state does not make the most of state-owned concessions. This is the warning that comes from the Court of Auditors in the analysis " The management of revenues deriving from state-owned maritime assets ". The accounting magistrates found "a fragmented framework of legislation and administrative competences characterized by the separation between the ownership of responsibilities in the granting of concessions (entrusted to local authorities) and the ownership of the public proceeds deriving from them (at the head of the State)" . A confusion that results in a shortage of resources in the public treasury.
The limited profitability
The survey covers the years 2016-2020 . The accounting judiciary underlines the need to enhance the state-owned maritime concessions, to increase their profitability. The Court of Auditors interprets the same will of the legislator who, with the August 2020 Decree, set the minimum fee for the state concession starting from 2021 at 2,500 euros. The Sostegni-bis decree then intervened on this point. for some categories, it reduced the fee to a minimum of 500 euros . The Court found that, between 2016 and 2020, the expected revenues were below expectations : an average of € 101.7 million compared to a forecast of 111 . "The aforementioned framework of fragmentation of legislation and administrative competences, in conjunction with other critical management factors, has had a negative impact on the management of the property of the tourist-recreational maritime state property", reads the report.
The confusion of income from the maritime state property
The Court of Auditors notes that the management of the proceeds deriving from the maritime state property is not efficient. "The multiplicity of entities, which in various capacities intervene in the matter, has led to a management of the flow of revenues deriving from state-owned maritime fees that is not entirely efficient ", reads the analysis. Furthermore, in relation to the Information System of the maritime state property, the Court reports that "the updating of the same was deficient in the part relating to the insertion of the concession fees due and collected and that this failure to update did not ensure the consistency of the data entered with what is present in the documents of the public administrations involved ". However, following the introduction of the new payment methods through " F24-Elide ", the gap found in the 2016-2020 period between the definitive forecasts and the total payments, as already highlighted above, was lower than what was detected in the period 2013-2017 ".
Non-performing loans
With regard to "the results of the Collection Agent's activities, strongly affected by the effects of the pandemic, they also appear to be conditioned by the significant presence ( about 17% ) of credits that are difficult to recover" because they are due by people involved in insolvency proceedings, people deceased, discontinued and non-owned companies . "It is – add the accounting magistrates -, as is well known, a transversal problem that concerns the generality of the tax revenues to be collected coercively". The Court hopes that "the tax collection reform currently indicated in the bill for the reform of the tax system approved by the Government" will soon be put in place and that "it will allow the identification of suitable solutions aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the administrative structure and, at the same time, adequately protect the tax interest ".
The revision of the state-owned concessions system
The accounting magistrates consider it urgent "the need for an overall review of the state-owned concessions system " also in light of "the further infringement procedure of 3 December 2020 launched by the European Commission against Italy for incorrect implementation of the" Bolkestein Directive " .
The portal to the sea
The Court also considers that "an adequate implementation of the information system for the management of state-owned concessions" Sid – Il Portale del mare "is urgently needed. The Ministerial Decree of 19 November 2015 provided for the extension of the "unitary payment methods of taxes through the" F24-Elide "model to the payments of fees and indemnities relating to state-owned maritime concessions and related accessories, interest and penalties due, through the 'shared use of the State-owned maritime information system ”. The sea portal has allowed the Administrations to " identify the assets with greater certainty and to represent their geometric characteristics and their real state of use".
The criticalities of the CIS
However, the critical issues are not resolved at all, with regard to the information system of the maritime domain, the Court "reports that the updating of the same was deficient in the part relating to the insertion of the concession fees due and collected and that this failure to update did not ensure the consistency of the data entered with what is present in the documents of the public administrations involved ". Furthermore, “many of the differences between the fees due and collected found during the analysis of the SID data are mostly due to the failure to enter them by the Administrations concerned. Another critical element found is the incomplete solution of the persisting misalignments between land and buildings cadastre, on a computerized level, in the relative database ". However, the Section hopes "that within the overall framework of regulatory reform, ways can be envisaged that encourage local authorities to promptly update the data in the aforementioned" SID-Portale del mare ", by allocating part of the proceeds to the latter. deriving from the possible revision of the methods for determining state rents ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/demanio-marittimo-un-caos-non-solo-sui-canoni-parola-della-corte-dei-conti/ on Sun, 09 Jan 2022 07:47:52 +0000.