|
Sail-World.com : Tax on anchoring: Cruising sailors must pay to 'Save Italy'
Tax on anchoring: Cruising sailors must pay to 'Save Italy'
|
|
|
'Head east young sailor: Anchoring in Turkey is still largely free'
.
|
Roving Mediterranean cruisers are being given one more reason to head for lower cost regimes like Turkey. The Italian government is planning to tax you for anchoring in, or even outside, its ports.
As part of its plans to overhaul the county’s plight the Italian Government is planning to introduce a significant 'Berthing Tax' for yachts - but it includes anchoring.
Beginning in May 2012, all yachts over 10 metres will, if ratified by government, be taxed on a daily basis if they decide to moor up inside a harbour — or even anchor off outside a harbour.
Those of 24 metres and over will be taxed at a rate of €150 per day if they stay at anchor off a port or tie alongside a dock inside one. This would mean that if you stayed for a year in an Italian port you would pay € 54,750.00 per year.
Yachts in dry dock will receive a 50% discount. Those over five years old would get a 15 per cent discount, those over 10 years a 30 per cent discount, and veterans of 15 years or older would receive a 45 per cent discount.
This measure is part of Decreto Legge 6 Dicembre 2011 n. 201, a draft Italian Statute currently under discussion before the Italian Parliament.
Nicknamed by Prime Minister, Mario Monti, during a recent speech as the 'Save Italy' law, it forms part of a very extensive new tax regime whose efforts are to reduce Italy’s massive deficit.
But Italy might find that there is an exodus of yachts from the Italian coastline towards Slovenia (where there isn't much coastline), Croatia and Turkey.
by Des Ryan
Click on the FB Like link to post this story to your FB wall
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?nid=92150
9:40 PM Thu 22 Dec 2011 GMT
Click here for printer friendly version
Click here to send us feedback or comments about this story.
Related News Stories:
MORE STORIES ...
|
|
|
Our Advertisers are committed to our sport, please support them!
This site and its contents are © Copyright TetraMedia Pty. Ltd and/or the original author, photographer etc. All Rights Reserved.
Photographs are copyright by law. If you wish to use or buy a photograph you must contact the photographer directly (there is a hyperlink in most cases to their website, or do a Google search.) with your request.
Please do not contact
Sail-World.com
as we cannot give permission for use of other photographer’s images.
Only if the photographer named on the image is Sail-world.com, Powerboat-world.com, Marinebusiness-world.com or NZBoating-World.com.
Contact us
.
Ph: +61 2 8006 1873
or complete our
feedback form
Contact us
.
View our Privacy Policy.
[ Go Home]
[ Banner Advertising Specification]
[Bot Archive ]
Customised news feeds -Marine Industry companies, Clubs and Associations have their own customised version of our news feed on their website.
Look_here_to_see_examples
|
| | |
_USA_05-13[3].gif)
