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Press release no. 195

Regarding a question from Councilor Caruso circulated to the press today, in order to avoid confusion in this delicate phase of adherence to the simplified definition of taxes by the interested citizens, the Councilor for Taxes Giovanni Iacono, intends to promptly clarify: " The regulation approved by the City Council on the proposal of the Municipal Board contains procedural clarity and does not contain any interpretative gray areas that risk generating confusion." Confusion can arise if questions to which answers have already been provided from the beginning in the institutional offices and most recently by the Mayor in the City Council on April 29th, continue to be re-proposed. We reiterate that national law 199/2025 introduced the quinquies scrapping which concerns tax bills managed directly by the Revenue and Collection Agency and does not apply to local tax debts . The law provides that tax bills relating to Previous installment payments. The simplified settlement introduced by the Municipality of Ragusa with specific regulation no. 26 of March 24, 2026, provides that the following debts can be subject to simplified settlement:

1. Tax debts (IMU-TARI-TOURIST TAX) arising from enforcement actions issued by 12/31/2025 or arising from non-enforcement actions accrued as of 12/31/2025;

2. 2 Debts of a patrimonial nature (Water fee - Single patrimonial fee) arising from enforcement actions issued by 12/31/2025;

3. 3. Debts of a patrimonial nature relating to the Single Property Fee – rental fees for municipal properties – municipal nursery school fees deriving from executive titles or accrued as of 12/31/2025.”

Therefore, Councillor Iacono concludes: " It is clear that although the State law refers to different situations, in the regulation we wanted, in part, to borrow it (and this was one of the choices of the Municipality in addition to the elimination of penalties and interest) to broaden the range of beneficiaries and it is specified in art. 2 of the regulation, among the debts include the installment payments , in progress, started, prior to the approval of the regulation ."