Italy to Scrap Road Tax From 2027, and the South Counts Its Cars

Italy will scrap its annual road tax from 2027 for the owners of about 70 percent of the vehicles on its roads, according to The Local Italy, which reported the change this week. The measure removes a recurring charge that Italian motorists have paid for decades, and it does so for the large majority of the national fleet rather than for a narrow category.

The foreign coverage does not spell out the fiscal arithmetic — what the state expects to lose, or how it intends to replace the revenue — and this dispatch will not invent it. What is reported is the scale: seven vehicles in ten, a figure that makes the change a mass measure rather than a targeted relief.

In Campania the calculation is different from the one in Milan or Turin. Public transport in much of the region is thin outside the Naples conurbation, and for many households in the provinces a car is not a luxury but the only practical link to work, school and hospital.