High tax: Italian companies of South Tyrol move to Austria
August 10th, 2007 in Austrian Taxes
South Tyrol was taken away from Austria by Italy after the first world war in 1918.
Now enterprises from South Tyrol leaving Italy and moving to Austria. Reason: the taxes of Italy are too high.
The two most famous South Tyrolean enterprises who want to leave South Tyrol and move to Austria are Fercam and Salewa.
High taxes and extraordinary bureaucratic charges makes it more and more difficult for enterprises in Italy. Italian companies which are located close to the border of Austria, like the province of South Tyrol, have found a solution: they want to leave Italy and move to Austria.
The intended destination of those companies is the province of East Tyrol which belongs to Austria.
Logistics company Fercam made profit in the value of 4,2 mio EUR last year. 3 mio EUR of that sum was taken away for taxes. “This is too much”, says Fercam manager Thomas Baumgartner.
The minister president of South Tyrol is worried about such stories. He wants to go to the Roman parliament and beg for tax abatements for the enterprises of his province. Maybe that could change their mind to stay in Italy.
At long last sense prevails – it was a travesty of history and geography and a betrayal of the allies to sell South Tyrol down the river and annexe it to Italy. Certainly putting it within arm’s reach to Mussolini was the most ridiculous thing since the Hanoverian King George III lost the American colonies by refusing them representation in the British Parliament. But this is what happens when other nations try to interfere in other nation’s business. In this case Germans, British and American colonies plus the French and American Native Indians all thrown into the melting pot and coming out with nothing but revolution. Events in the end righted themselves when the British and Americans a century or more later became bosom buddies. It is an obvious union. As is South Tyrol with the rest of the Tyrol and Austria.
In the end for the natural connexion to prevail it will be down to economics as these two companies have discovered.
But it was President Woodrow Wilson who refused to listen to the local voices of the Tyrol by going against his original judgment that minorities should have the final say as to which nation they belonged to. Despite a massive majority of South Tyroleans wanting to remain Austrian (why ever not?) he caved in to Italian justification for a border that was easier to defend.
Fat lot of good that did, as the Italians under Mussolini joined the Axis barely 20 years later. His quote of 1915, April 20th, that ‘no nation is fit to sit in judgement of another nation’ obviously joined the book of hypocritical statements when that is precisely what he led the allies to decide when handing over South Tyrol to an increasingly fascist Italy and a clear case of ethnic cleansing by pushing southern Italians into the South Tyrol and German speaking Austrians back into the newly declared Austrian republic.
Hopefully now justice will prevail and South Tyrol will return to where it has always been in its people’s heart; joined to East and North Tyrol to come together as the ancient Tyrol once more in political geography too.
Long Live South Tyrol in Austria, from a British friend.
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