The recent harmonization of the tax schemes of the Italian Port Authorities and their activi- ties has defused the infringement procedure promoted by the European Commission against Italy, leaving however unresolved important issues that do not allow to restore certainty, not even in financial terms, to the bodies responsible for managing the ports. The Supreme Court, with this decision and with five others almost contemporaneous, provides a new contribution to their solution, recognising the configuration of tax breaks on the fees received by the Port Authorities in terms of State aid pre-existing to the signing of the Treaties and, at the same time, containing the claims of the tax authorities on the basis of the non-recoverability of such benefits. The different balance between collective interest and protection of competition in the internal legal system and in EU law remains at the bottom.
La recente armonizzazione degli schemi impositivi delle Autorità portuali italiane e delle loro attività ha disinnescato la procedura di infrazione promossa dalla Commis- sione europea nei confronti dell’Italia lasciando tuttavia irrisolte rilevanti questioni che non consentono di restituire certezze, neppure in termini finanziari, agli organismi preposti alla gestione dei porti. La Suprema Corte, con questa sentenza e con altre cinque pressoché coeve, fornisce un nuovo contributo alla loro soluzione, ricono- scendo la configurazione delle agevolazioni fiscali sui canoni percepiti dalle Autorità portuali in termini di aiuti di Stato preesistenti alla sottoscrizione dei Trattati ed argi- nando, al tempo stesso, le pretese dell’amministrazione finanziaria sulla base della non recuperabilità di tali benefici. Resta sul fondo il differente bilanciamento tra interesse collettivo e tutela della concorrenza nell’ordinamento interno e nel diritto unionale.
L’esenzione dall’IRES dei canoni percepiti dalle Autorità di sistema portuale ancora al vaglio della Suprema Corte: la non recuperabilità degli aiuti di Stato ‘esistenti’
g. selicato;l. v. caramia
2024-01-01
Abstract
The recent harmonization of the tax schemes of the Italian Port Authorities and their activi- ties has defused the infringement procedure promoted by the European Commission against Italy, leaving however unresolved important issues that do not allow to restore certainty, not even in financial terms, to the bodies responsible for managing the ports. The Supreme Court, with this decision and with five others almost contemporaneous, provides a new contribution to their solution, recognising the configuration of tax breaks on the fees received by the Port Authorities in terms of State aid pre-existing to the signing of the Treaties and, at the same time, containing the claims of the tax authorities on the basis of the non-recoverability of such benefits. The different balance between collective interest and protection of competition in the internal legal system and in EU law remains at the bottom.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


