This analysis uses a tax/benefit microsimulation model based on the pooling of the three last Bank of Italy shiw’s (1998, 2000 and 2002) to estimate the re-distributive effects of the main Italian local taxes. The study is focused on ici, Addizionale all’irpef and tarsu, applied in 2004 on the resident households of the municipality of Emilia Romagna and Puglia. The choice of theese two regions was made because of their different tax scheme and because of the different level and distribution of the income and wealth. The redistributive impact is estimated using a synthetic index and analysing the distribution of the relative incidence among quintile of the population. The analysis demonstrates that the total local tax is more regressive in Puglia than in Emilia Romagna. The effect mainly comes by the application of tarsu. The different impacts of local taxes are not depending just by tax scheme but even by the distribution of their tax-bases among community.

Marcello Morciano, in "ECONOMIA PUBBLICA " 3-4/2006, pp. 87-110, DOI: