The automobile tax reform is launched. Here are the Christmas surprises

When it comes to car tax there is talk of a tax to be paid. From one of the many tasks of taxpayers, car owners. It may be for this reason that many motorists, especially those who use their own vehicle for work, have decided to delegate the administrative and bureaucratic management of the car to a third company. Car tax, insurance and maintenance: no problem! The company that owns the vehicle takes care of everything and rents it to us.

Here it is difficult to say whether it is more convenient to rent a car or buy one. The costs vary, undoubtedly, by the kilometers traveled during the year. Definitely delegate the bureaucratic management And managing your machine can be convenient for many professionals, for whom standing still means losing rotation. Too bad this year alone on the management front of the car tax Important innovations have been introduced, which from 2021 will force many motorists to change their habits.

Car tax: what changes with the tax decree!

the car tax rental vehicles has undoubtedly become the joke of 2020. Not so much for those directly affected, who until now did not know if they should have reached into their wallets or if everything should remain in the hands of the rental company. With the January tax decree tax revenue from car tax from the region in which the rental company is based to that in which the client resides. This made the management of the payment of vehicle tax by rental companies. A situation that has forced many of these companies to announce that they do not want to continue managing the car tax on the part of the clients, since the operation became very complicated for them, thus nullifying the advantage of the all-inclusive formula, which made long-term rental convenient. A decision that would have run the risk of completely destroying the rental sector, in a period in which it had already been severely tested by the health emergency triggered by Covid 19.

Faced with all these protests, the government has received another postponement. In other words, it postponed the actual implementation of the procedure. The goal was to find some kind of compromise that would give long-term rental operators the ability to continue managing the payment of the car tax of their own cars, paying the tax in the region where the many customers resided. Finally the solution arrived. the Ministry of Economy and Finance, on September 28, 2020, published the executive decree that contained the

Operational procedures for the acquisition of the data necessary to identify the subjects obliged to pay the motor vehicle tax for vehicles leased long-term without a driver.

What does the new procedure provide, in a nutshell? The execution decree allows, from October 1, 2020, long-term rental companies to communicate with the Information System of the Public Vehicle Registry (PRA) managed byICA the personal data of the owner and user of the vehicle each time a contract is stipulated. In this way, with the new procedure, customers will be able to choose whether to pay the car tax in total autonomy or whether to delegate the task to the rental company. The latter, thanks to the computer system, will be able to cumulatively manage the payment of the car tax of all vehicles, regardless of the autonomous region or province where the customer resides.

Car tax: there is not only rent!

Certainly, this terrible and agonizing task does not involve only the long term rental company. But also private citizens, who every year have to put their hand in their wallet to pay the car tax. In some cases, however, it is possible to avoid paying for this much-hated share. We remind you that, theoretically, it must be paid even if the vehicle is not circulating. We must remember, in fact, that even if we decide to keep the car stopped in our garage and do not use it for long periods, the car tax You must pay the same. The only case in which we can avoid continuing to pay is if we had to sell the car to a dealer. In that case, the owner would not use the vehicle, but even if it is still in his name, he is not required to pay the car tax.

Simply put, the only way to be excluded from paying the car tax is to make a mini transfer. the the dealer is not, indeed, required to pay the vehicle tax. When we proceed to sell our machine to these merchants, in fact, it is necessary to make a mini transfer: a real deed of sale, which must be registered in the PRA and which allows us to save the car tax. A very similar case occurs when we lose possession of our car: when it is stolen. When we become aware of the theft, it is necessary to report it immediately to the competent authorities. A copy of the report must be provided to the PRA and, due to the loss of possession of the vehicle, the owner will no longer have to pay the car tax.

Administrative stop and vehicle tax!

A somewhat particular case concerns the administrative detention of our car. What does it mean administrative detention? It is a measure with which the State Financial Administration moves against a taxpayer who has not paid taxes. Through administrative detention, theCollection agency puts tax jaws on a car and imposes your arrest until the taxpayer pays the taxes.

Therefore, the vehicle will not be able to circulate. The ownership and possession of it remains in the hands of the motorist, who will not even have the opportunity to scrap it or demolish it. You will not even be able to proceed to sell it, because the block would pass to the new owner. A sentence from Constitutional court established, in 2017, that regions can legitimately collect the car tax also to vehicles subjected to administrative detention.