The tax discount on fuel expires, excise duties on diesel will increase from tomorrow

The last tax discount on fuel, decided by the Meloni government on 16 September, expires at midnight. And so, from tomorrow, Tuesday 6 October, the excise duties on diesel will increase by 6.1 cents, without the mobile excise duties mechanism compensating for the end of the tax discount applied to date. In fact, the Mase-Mef interministerial decree which would have been necessary to use the VAT extra revenue to reduce excise duties does not appear in the Official Gazette. This is the first time that tax cuts on fuel have disappeared completely since March, when the first legislative decree designed to deal with the consequences of the war between the USA and Iran was approved.

The effect of the price cap

Meanwhile, in recent weeks, prices at the pump have started to decrease also thanks to the price cap adopted directly by the oil companies. The government had chosen the path of moral suasion, inviting operators to intervene to mitigate the impact of high fuel prices, and the results translated into a drop in prices. Above all, the main oil companies contributed to the decline. Eni has introduced a price cap on its network, setting the price of petrol at 1.99 euros per liter and that of diesel at 2.19 euros, with an initial validity of 30 days and the possibility of extension. Ip, Q8 and Tamoil joined the same initiative, progressively extending the discounts to their distributors.

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