From today, no discount on diesel excise duties: here's how prices change

The diesel excise duty discount has expired without being renewed. In the Official Journal on Saturday, the last day of validity of the cut, there is no extension, and from today ordinary taxes will be paid again on diesel. At the pump the effect is predictable: new increases, even if limited.

The Government kept the game open until the end. Even on Friday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni assured that the Executive was working "day and night" on the fuel dossier and was evaluating a new renewal with the mobile excise duty mechanism, which uses the greater VAT revenue produced precisely by the increases. In the end the choice went in the opposite direction. With the full rates, the treasury saves around 3.5 million euros per day, and retains the extra VAT revenue from October, which is added to the portion of that from September which remained unused.

For motorists the bill only concerns diesel. The cut in force until November 7 was worth just under 4.9 cents per litre, including VAT. It was therefore a limited intervention, and this is the order of magnitude of the expected increase in the price lists. Petrol was left out of the discount and is not subject to tax changes.

The survey by the Price Observatory of the Ministry of Business on Sunday, which however stops in the early hours of the morning, indicates an average self-price on the road network of 2.223 euros per liter for diesel and 2 euros for petrol, returning to the threshold of two euros after weeks of records.

On the motorway the averages rise to 2,277 euros for diesel and 2,029 euros for petrol. These are high values ​​by Italian standards - which will increase by a few more cents for diesel - but they still remain lower than the peaks of a few weeks ago.