Higher prices in San Marino? Outrage: “It is unacceptable to talk about abnormal recharges”
“The recent news that appeared in local newspapers represent yet another slap in the face of the whole system”.
TheSammarinese Trade and Tourism Union in a note in which he expresses “his disappointment regarding the statements made by those who probably do not know what he is talking about”.
The reference is to the CSDL, which in the days raised the issue of the pronouncement of the tax reform, but above all to theinterview given to San Marino Rtv by Francesca Busignani, president of the San Marino Consumers Union, in which there was talk of a “rthe operator’s charge is sometimes almost double compared to abroad“.
Phrases that come out defines “slogans expressed by those who have one if insured and do not need to make ends meet every month by honoring fixed costs, bank unori, salaries, contributions, etc. Entering a free market with a straight leg, where anyone is free to make their purchases wherever they want, speaking of abnormal markups applied by merchants, is unacceptable.. Just as the declaration of wanting to control the markups applied by companies by entering the “commissions” only for a demand for “power” is unacceptable.
For years, we have been denouncing the many system and daily operational difficulties in which the entire commercial sector and beyond, has been denouncing for years. The old story that “in San Marino everything costs more” is the slogan that we continue to use without knowing what it means to do business and how much the world has changed in recent years “.
And again: “We ask ourselves which entrepreneur is who, by choice, prefers to apply higher prices, risking losing customers by lowering their sales volumes or turnover.
For those who don’t know the large numbers make it possible to significantly increase purchase prices and it is mainly on this that large structures, or large platforms, base their sales policies. Why do we continue to point the finger only at one sector and not at an entire sick and burdensome system? Do we really think that everything can be solved with the difference of 5 percentage points between single-phase and VAT? “.
“If the businesses close or are forced to emigrate who will continue to pay the 50 million single-phase a year into the state coffers?”.
Speaking of single-phase, we come back to talk about the Amazon theme: “We are sure that the thousands of packages per day, coming from the platforms outside the border and delivered by couriers to the homes of the San Marino citizens, pay 17% of the single-phase in the state coffers? And maybe they will also be happy to pay 22% less as “normal” or indirect “evasion” of VAT. For example: suppose that 1500 parcels enter the territory per day (downward estimate) and that an average of 15 euros of single-phase is not paid for each parcel. The daily total would be € 22,500 of non-payment of single-phase. Calculated for 300 days a year, the total not paid into the state coffers would be 6,750,000 euros, without considering the distortions and unequal treatment that companies, mainly commercial, have been suffering for years as a result of this sick system.
The paradox ?! We went wild to get the packages to San Marino but apparently, and here comes the absurdity, now the packages are arriving in San Marino even for non-residents, thus creating a double “evasion”, no VAT, no single phase, no income for everyone. Who benefits from all this? “.