Fuels, diesel at the highest since July 2022. The two precedents of mobile excise duty application
Petrol to peak for almost a year (from 16 March 2025) and diesel for over three and a half years, from 10 July 2022
The run-up in fuel prices at the pump continues, with petrol at its highest for almost a year (since 16 March 2025) and diesel for more than three and a half years, since 10 July 2022, when the discount on excise duty introduced by the Draghi government on 22 March 2022 and maintained until the end of the year was still in force. This is what Staffetta Quotidiana, the energy portal, writes today. The price is the national average self-service road price monitored by the Osservaprezzi Carburanti del Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy: there are about 20,000 petrol stations in Italy.
Over the weekend, both PD secretary Elly Schlein and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said they were in favour of implementing the mobile tax.
The Prime Minister said in a video on social media that the Ministry of the Economy has been studying the measure for a few days.
The 'rebate' applied by Draghi in 2022 was also an implementation of the mobile excise rule, but reinforced by funds from the 'extra profits tax' applied to energy companies. The result was an excise tax cut of 25 cents per litre (30 counting VAT).
The mobile excise rule was only applied one other time, between April and May 2008, by the Prodi II government, with Pier Luigi Bersani at the Ministry of Economic Development and Tommaso Padoa Schioppa at the Economy.
