Company cars, the PD points to ad hoc taxation to incentivise green choices

The green transition, especially with regard to the automotive sector, is 'a necessary revolution', and we cannot 'remain in the middle of the ford': rather, we must 'accelerate', making sure that there is an economic benefit not only from an environmental point of view but also with regard to companies', which must be 'supported' and 'incentivised'. And this 'especially because company cars in Italy are 40% of the entire fleet' in circulation 'and they pollute 60% because they logically have much longer distances'. This was said by the Democratic Party deputy Marco Simiani, first signatory of a bill on the taxation of company cars with 'Provisions on the tax treatment of purchase costs and expenses for company vehicles'.

It is a matter, Simiani explained to Parliament 24, of 'creating the conditions for there to be a real incentive' for ecological choices, starting with the tax treatment and taxation of company cars. In particular, the focus is on the revision of tax deductibility, with the possibility in some cases of going as high as 100 per cent, of the purchase and rental costs of company cars, with a specific intervention on Article 164 of the Income Tax Consolidation Act. And on the revision of VAT deductibility of the operating costs of company fleets, in this case by intervening on Presidential Decree 633/1972. The idea, he concludes, is to 'incentivise companies to renew their company car fleets with zero-emission vehicles by taking advantage of taxation calibrated to emission classes', applying in practice the principle that 'the more you pollute, the more you pay'.