Controversy from Federcaccia Toscana for the cuts in funds to be allocated to hunting announced by the Region.
Federcaccia Toscana: these are resources paid by hunters, their removal from the sector would also be an act contrary to the Regional Law. “We are aware that the very hard phase of the crisis affecting the country imposes sacrifices and renunciations on everyone.
The hunters are involved like all citizens and as such bear the greatest burdens, fiscal and otherwise, determined by the current critical situation, but the regional taxes paid for the hunting exercise have a precise destination constraint and their removal from the sector could not to define itself as anything other than a genuine undue expropriation. " Read the newspapers, this is the first comment by Moreno Periccioli, President of Federcaccia Toscana.
"I emphasize that it is the Regional Law 3/94 that duly provides that all the resources collected as a regional concession tax for hunting are aimed at achieving the purposes of this law, and that the matter has also been the subject of a pronouncement by the Constitutional Court which affirmed, in fact, the principle of the restriction of destination. "
"It is therefore with bewilderment and surprise" continues Periccioli "that we learn from the press that the Council of the Tuscany Region would have decided, on July 30, a cut of 2,3 million euros, moreover with the declared intention of consolidating the curtailment for the next few years. If the regional government really does proceed, Federcaccia Toscana is ready to activate all the necessary political initiatives and legal actions. "
"I also remember the Agenda approved by the Regional Council to demand the transfer from the State of 50% of the proceeds from the government concession taxes on hunting, which the 2001 finance law (not applied) provides precisely in order to favor the timely implementation of wildlife-environmental management: an intervention like the one announced would be inconsistent and contradictory even with those sacrosanct claims. "
"I want to express my hope and trust" concludes the President of Federcaccia Toscana "that there are margins and will for a reflection that will lead the Regional Council to fully restore the funds of the hunting sector with the confirmation of the destination to it of all resources collected as a regional concession tax for hunting. "
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