6. Other taxes
Revenue from taxes other than the four main figures decreased by % in 2019, falling to 9.265 billion (4.4% of total revenue).
The collection of the Non-Resident Income Tax in 2019 was 2,369 million, 11.1% below the income of 2018. This interrupts the last phase of growth of this tax (in the previous four years the average increase was over 17%). Withholdings and payments on account grew less than in 2018 (5.4% compared to 13.4%) due to the lower increase in dividends. However, the biggest difference compared to last year was the performance of the annual declaration, whose net share was negative after two years of positive results. Refunds continued to grow (not reaching the same rate as in 2018), but the big change was in the gross income from the declaration, which in 2018 reached an exceptionally high level (862 million compared to the average of 538 million in 2017 and 2019).
The environmental taxes , which group together the environmental taxation of direct taxation and the Tax on Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Table 6.2), accounted for 1.1 billion in revenue in 2019 (1.019 from the former and 81 from the latter). The figure is much lower than in 2018 (-44.5%) due to the strong negative impact of the regulatory changes in the Tax on the Value of Electric Production and the Tax on Fluorinated Gases. Revenue from these taxes fell by 54.8% and 26.3%, respectively. In the first case, RDL 15/2018 temporarily eliminated the tax during the fourth quarter of 2018 and the first of 2019, returns that should have both been filed in 2019 (in accrual terms, the elimination affected 2018 and 2019, hence the large difference seen in Table 6.2 between accrual and cash). The loss of income is estimated at 762 million (Table 1.5). Even with them, the revenue would not have reached that of 2018 (it would have been 6.7% lower), which is explained by the low amount of exchanges in the production market (the tax base) in those periods. In the case of the Tax on Fluorinated Gases, it was affected by the rate reduction that came into force in September 2018 and that had been approved in July with the Budgets of that year. Nor is the collection of this tax, once the loss of income (24 million) is added Table 1.5), would have exceeded that of the previous year (-4.4%). Without any impact, therefore, environmental taxes would still have fallen, but only by 4.8%.
Within the indirect taxes, the other figures other than the two main ones with the highest income are the Common Foreign Traffic Tax (Table 6.3) and the Insurance Premium Tax (Table 6.4). In 2019, revenue from Common Foreign Traffic amounted to 1,984 million, 4.1% more than in 2018, while in the Tax on Insurance Premiums, revenue grew by 2.8%, one point less than in 2018, reaching a collection of 1,547 million.
Revenue from Fees and other revenues of Chapter III grew by 9.7% (Table 1.6), with mixed results in fees (+50.1%) and other revenues (-11.5%). The Rates (Table 6.6) increased thanks to the Fee for the use of continental waters for the production of electric energy, with poor results in 2018 due to the drought of 2017 (the fee is settled the following year) and the Radioelectric Rates (with an extraordinary income) and Telecommunications (due to the delay in making the refunds). In Chapter III Other income, all concepts decreased, but in particular, in relative terms, late payment interest (-22.4%).