“Many of our fellow citizens, living in various foreign countries, are experiencing increasing difficulties due to double taxation and regulations that often penalize their status as migrants.

Lastly, it is likely to have serious consequences #8211 #8217 for Italian pensioners living in italy after a procedure opened by the European Commission – the ’exemption from the ’IMU for the first home in Italy of Italian pensioners living in #8217;foreign. Exemption that was introduced a few years ago by the parliamentary initiative of the Democratic Party”;   This was highlighted today by Luciano Vecchi, head of the Italian Department in the World of the Democratic Party. On these issues, a meeting took place in recent days with the undersecretary of the Ministry of #8217; Economy and Finance Pierpaolo Baretta promoted by the Department.   During #8217 the meeting, in which the undersecretary took over the #8217;commitment to quickly start an investigation to address open issues, three urgent issues were highlighted in particular.   Taxation on the house The first is related to the taxation of housing, which, following the previous legislation, risks putting our less well-off elderly compatriots in difficulty, for which it has been proposed to put to study a new measure that is in accordance with the law of the #8217;European Union.   Overlapping national and local taxes The second relates to the growing problems, especially in Switzerland, caused by the overlap of national and local (or cantonal) taxes on real estate owned in Italy and which also weighs the #8217;imposition in our country.   Mr Vecchi stressed the need #8220 to update bilateral agreements (particularly the one with Switzerland) to deal with this situation.   Access to credit in Italy for building renovations for AIRE members Finally, the theme of the ’access to credit in Italy for building renovations for AIRE members that, often it proves impossible or in any case entails particularly vexatious conditions. It is intended to open a comparison with the Italian banking system and the verification of particular forms of guarantee to facilitate improvements and security of a building heritage often located in areas at risk of depopulation.   “On these and other issues, promptly flagged by representative bodies, associations, trade unions and Democratic Party MPs and organizations around the world, it has finally opened – pointed out Vecchi – a fruitful confrontation aimed at protecting and enhancing our compatriots at the #8217;foreign”. The article Vecchi: “Urgently addressing the tax problems of Italians at’foreign” comes from the Democratic Party.