Amazon case in San Marino, Secretary Gatti: “Blocking of deliveries in contrast to a market distortion or the non-application of single-phase VAT”
The Secretariat of State for Finance intervenes on the issue of non-delivery of parcels by Amazon on the San Marino territory.
A question already raised in these hours by Domani – Motus Liberi, after the barrage of reports rained on the pages of social networks by San Marino residents complaining about the non-delivery.
“The delivery of parcels by Amazon on the San Marino territory – premieres the Secretariat of State – is a longstanding theme and is a nicely fiscal theme. Amazon, in fact, delivers to the rest of the world in compliance with tax regulations that provide for importation in the payment of taxes in the country of consumption when the volume of sales exceeds certain.
The Secretariat of State for Finance and the Budget, since the end of last year, has been active for
sensitize Amazon to share solutions to fulfill the single-phase tax payment also formulating concrete proposals. The Amazon interlocutors have shown themselves to be attentive to the issues posed and declared interested in finding solutions to fulfill, like what happens in the others, the single-phase payment. We want to use the blocking of deliveries as opposed to a market distortion due to the non-application of indirect taxes (single-phase-VAT) ”.
Then Gatti responds to the accusations of the majority Motus Liberi colleagues who, while not quoting him, accused him of being responsible for blocking the parcels.
!With regret – writes the Secretariat – we read the press release from Domani Motus Liberi which speaks of a “clumsy approach” when the issue has been under discussion for months and when the government is responsible for intervening on the issue phenomena distorting that damage the country’s economy. Moreover, the Secretary of State of Domani Motus Liberi with responsibility for Commerce should be the first interested in guaranteeing competition to protect all those local activities that the same products offered by Amazon, having however already invested and regularly paying the single-phase “.
Finally, from Palazzo Begni, the perplexity of the agreement with Amazon Web Services signed by the Secretary Righi in 2021 is revealed: “This issue is not a tax issue but rather a”sovereignty of digital data“. The proposal to exit from the data released by the public part outside the national territory is a theme which impacts from the first to the last citizen, from the first to the last company. Reflection and evaluation of the impact of placing data on a territory where the Republic has no jurisdiction, but the other territory has it, it cannot be taken lightly. It would be different to act so that Amazon seriously considered the creation of digital logistics in the Republic to deliver their services to businesses, the financial sector, the PA and perhaps develop the creation of “digital embassies” that can guarantee a certain legal status of “digital data sovereignty”.