Stamp, the IMF asks twenty-year-old motorcycles to wait

Bun – Anyone who has to pay the tax for a twenty-year-old historic motorbike will have to be very careful. In fact, the situation is different from region to region. Before proceeding to pay the property tax, as established by Stability Law 2015, the IMF recommends waiting a few more days and consulting the regional offices to receive correct instructions.

La flat-rate road tax for a vehicle registered in a historical register, provided however that it is not the only vehicle owned and therefore of daily use, it will be maintained, for now and unofficially, by the sole Lombardy region. This is possible because the car tax is a regional responsibility and Lombardy can deviate from the national law. The IMF is contacting individual administrations to understand how to guide users on the payment of the stamp.

On 22 December 2014, Parliament abolished the preferential flat-rate circulation tax for vehicles between twenty and thirty years old, reintroducing the property tax which is therefore due even if the vehicles are not in circulation. The IMF considered the a measure that is insensitive to Italian motoring history and culture and attempted in every way to counteract it, through the presentation of amendments contrary to the initiative, in the House and Senate. Nonetheless, trust in the entire Stability Law did not allow this initiative to be cancelled. “We have also repeatedly pointed out that the profit forecasts of 78,5 million euros from the reintroduction of the property tax for vehicles between twenty and thirty years old are absolutely not in line with reality, since, being the tax regional it is not possible to calculate the actual number of vehicles subject to payment throughout the territory and furthermore, as evidenced by the numerous protest communications that we receive daily, there will be many, many people who, unable to pay the property tax, will send to scrap their vehicles, or they will sell them abroad in countries where the historical motoring culture is more alive and not penalized by the institutions“he said in a statement to the IMF.

The flat-rate road tax, according to the IMF, has allowed many people to grow their own passion and to keep more than one motorbike in the garage, counting on the fact that the bollo it only had to be paid if the vehicle was in circulation. “This has allowed the reconstruction of a historical and cultural heritage which today risks dispersion again”, the IMF added. “Not to mention that many enthusiasts feel betrayed by their own State which in 2000, with the previous law, encouraged them to conserve by facilitating taxation, and today instead penalizes them. We remind you that the flat-rate circulation tax remains in force for vehicles reaching their thirtieth birthday".