Amazon, the Meloni government thinks of a green tax

A green tax for the big ones distribution company who use polluting means to deliver goods to their customers, how Amazon. According to The printis one of the solutions under government scrutiny of the president Giorgia Meloni to make ends meet the Italian public accounts, expected that next year the deficit will rise from 3.9% to 4.5%.

Despite the details are not yet clear of the measure, the first reactions contrary to the possible measure have already arrived. All ‘Huffington Post, Danilo Morini, secretary of Filt-Cgil, expressed his doubts as to whether Amazon could really pay the tax. The trade unionist explained that in Italy there are “12 thousand vans from the approximately one hundred companies that make the bulk of deliveries. Only they will pay“.

More than any other company in the industry, Amazon has resources to adapt to parameters that allow her to carry under the pollution thresholds that the rule would provide: in September Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of the company, put it on the plate one billion dollars to spend by 2027 for “electrify and further decarbonise our transport network“.

To be in difficulty could be small and medium-sized transport and logistics companies. On the pollution front, the mechanism of taxes also worsens the situation ultra-fast deliveries and the increase in packaging to be recycled.