San Marino. UCS: “It’s good to increase Smac discounts on fuels, but it’s not enough”
“In this session, the request to raise the top-up quota by a further 0.15 cents on Smac was brought to the Great and General Council, and this gives us great pleasure”.
I write itUnion of Consumers of San Marinowho adds: “UCS however he asked, to protect the population / consumers something differentuse the Smack card to ensure a refill figure equal to the percentage difference in the increase price to the pump, to be multiplied by the liters dispensed.
Recharging, already today, takes place on the liters supplied, therefore with the increase in the price of fuel, more is spent for the same quantity of liters, therefore the sum loaded on the Smac, with a fixed increase from 0.15 to 0, 30 cents / liter and not indexed as a sum on the increase in fuel, it could be equal to or even lower than what was loaded when the fuel cost less on the same liter ”.
UCS also states that he asked: “if it were possible renegotiate the agreements on the sale price, exempting or substantially decreasing the percentage of excise duties and therefore decreasing no the price of purchase and therefore of sale to the consumer; while understanding that it is a path that would not give immediate but certainly “useful” answers in the future; if it were possible to amend Legislative Decree 2 of 2016 “Types of deductible goods and services”, in order to increase the deduction quota of 750 euros on fuels based on the percentage increase in the price, therefore a minimum of 1000.00 euros “.
We believe continues in the note, “that contrary to a renegotiation of the terms of the San Marino-Italy sales price agreements, this DL, if there were political will, would certainly vary in the maximum deductibility limit, perhaps starting from the tax return from this year “.
In addition, he adds, “circular no. 9, of the Secretariat of State for Finance, which links the calculation of the discounts Smac at the price of gasoline dates back to the distant past 2012 and since then it hasn’t never been changed.
In addition to this, again in circular n9, the limit of transaction on Smac for the purposes of top up the discount is 500.00 euros monthly, beyond this monthly sum, the Smac top-up is not carried out. Taking into account the monthly increase in the last period, but also the 12 years that have passed since the entry into force of this threshold figure, we believe that physiological to increase this limit, at least of the percentage increase in the cost of fuel since 2012, says Francesca Busignani President of UCS ”.
“We have asked for a meeting on the subject, we are sure, given the issue to protect the citizen – concludes UCS -, that we will be convened shortly”.