Musical instruments: €1,000 tax breaks

Finally! It was about time they incentivized spending in the music sector a little bit.

Let's say that with 1,000 euros one buys the case, but as my grandfather used to say: better nothing than something rather nothing :)

http://www.laleggepertutti.it/107898_bonus-strumenti-musicali-2016-chiarimenti-sullagevolazione

...and it seemed strange to me that some people were still not happy about it:

But the presidents of the conservatories are protesting: "An appreciable measure, but the total sum exceeds what is allocated for the ordinary functioning of our schools. We risk being left without heating"

http://www.corriere.it/scuola/medie/15_dicembre_22/studenti-musica-1000-euro-testa-comprare-strumento-b80dcca0-a8d3-11e5-8cb6-cc689478293e.shtml?refresh_ce-cp

It seems to me like the classic 'sheet that is too short' argument... "If you cover your shoulders, you uncover your feet". I would really love to know how they spend all the tax money they take from our salaries. Just the other day I was talking about it with my father. This month on my payslip I had more than 1000 euros in withholdings and despite having worked overtime, due to the annual tax adjustment, I received less than what my base pay should be. The absurd thing is that with what you have left, i.e., with your net income, you have to pay other taxes: excise duties on gasoline every time you fill up, electricity taxes, gas supply taxes, water supply taxes, IMU (property tax), and so on. Practically, we are halfway with the State. However, at the end of the day, one would expect public services to work properly; instead, in the morning on my scooter I look like Alberto Tomba because the roads are full of craters, healthcare doesn't work, and universities are penniless.

The point is that being without heating inside a school is not a utopia. It happened to me too when I was in high school. I remember that in the month of February, when the heating should have been working for three months already, we had to attend lessons wearing coats because if the professor questioned us, we would breathe smoke from our mouths. The principal's justification was that the boiler was not working and that after numerous reminders, the Region did not allocate the sum for the repair. In reality, that school also suffered from many other problems... It rained in some classrooms and corridors, it didn't have a gym, the classrooms had more broken chairs and desks than good ones, etc. Moral of the story: it was never understood who did it, but we think it was a group of students who set fire to the school, so the region found itself forced to invest, for the right to education, a considerable sum of money to adapt the structure to the regular conduct of lessons in very short time (a couple of weeks). In light of this loophole regarding the right to education, we thought that the gesture was not a sterile act of vandalism but that there was something behind it designed at a table with those who know certain dynamics even at a legislative level. Not only did they renovate the entire school providing new desks and chairs, but they also built a gym (which was already present in the original school project but never built) when we usually scraped our knees and elbows playing volleyball in the outdoor asphalt courtyard (even in winter); they equipped the computer labs with 35 new computers and also supplied the physics, chemistry, and astronomical geography laboratories with equipment that was truly cutting-edge for the time, including electron microscopes and a telescope worth about 15 million lire, if I remember correctly.

Now it might seem that I admire the gesture of these people, and I would like to clarify that vandalism is certainly not the way to solve problems, but I remember that all possible steps had been taken: sit-ins, self-management, newspaper articles, and they even called the television to do a reportage that aired on a news program... Nothing at all, none of these initiatives stirred the slightest interest from the authorities... Based on the facts, the message that would seem to come from the Region is that if you don't corner them into a position where they must spend money, they will never release it, but if in light of these events this money does come out, wouldn't it have been better to invest it sooner?

Can one go to such lengths to make things go as they should? Or perhaps I have misunderstood the "moral of this story" and the investment methods of the Regions towards public activities within their territory?

Does anyone know if a minimum spend is required to "activate" this incentive? Or can I go to the retailer, purchase the instrument for 1000 euros and pay zero [out of pocket]?

I believe it can even be brought down to 0, since this is a bonus with a tax credit from the seller to the buyer. Obviously, the retailer will then recover it from the state (in 2025 if all goes well). The problem is that the procedure is very restrictive; namely, you must be a student enrolled in a conservatory or an equivalent musical institute (for example, musical high schools). Your school/university will issue you a document certifying that you are a student of the XXX conservatory/high school, regularly enrolled in the "Instrument Name" course. When you go to use your bonus, it will be valid ONLY for the instrument of your course of study. In essence, if you are enrolled in the Piano course, you can only buy a piano. Furthermore, since it is a bonus with a tax credit, this obviously applies only to new instruments, so no used ones! In any case, if you are enrolled in the guitar course, I believe there will be no difficulty in spending the bonus on a 1000 euro guitar at zero cost, since the shopkeeper will recover the full amount anyway.

Right, but since I have just purchased my piano and currently already have 2, I wanted to take advantage of this bonus to purchase a third piano to "donate" to my town's theater, in case some child becomes interested in the instrument..

Anyway, I found the text and the buyer does not have to advance anything

pianothor wrote:

Right, but since I have just purchased my piano and currently already have 2, I wanted to take advantage of this bonus to purchase a third piano to "donate" to my town's theater, in case any child ever takes an interest in the instrument..

Anyway, I found the text and the buyer does not have to advance anything

Can you share it?

I had already uploaded it in the previous message but evidently not everyone can see it.. Here, I am uploading it as an attachment below:

It's a shame they didn't also include students enrolled in pre-academic courses. But only the old system and the three-year academic degree