Trieste: decisive turn in the lawsuits about taxation and the international Free Port

Trieste: decisive turn in the lawsuits about taxation and the international Free Port

by Paolo G. Parovel Trieste, 17 September 2020. – The three lawsuits initiated by the I.P.R. F.T.T. versus the Italian Government regarding the taxation rights of Trieste and the management of its international Free Port have reached a decisive turn: the ultimate legal proof that the well-known political theses about the lack of legal existence […]

Trieste summons the Italian Government before Court for applying the VAT (IVA)

Trieste summons the Italian Government before Court for applying the VAT (IVA)

Trieste, 4 December 2018. – Like the tax exclaves of Campione and of Livigno, on the border with Switzerland, Trieste and its international Free Port should be exempted from the Italian Value Added Tax – VAT (Imposta sul Valore Aggiunto – IVA), although for different reasons. Just like San Marino and Vatican City, Trieste is legally […]

The problem with China’s investments in the Port of Trieste

The problem with China’s investments in the Port of Trieste

Analysis by Paolo G. Parovel Zeno D’Agostino, President of the Trieste Port Authority, with the Vice-president of China Communications Construction Company Ltd, Ziyu Sun Some of the main State investors of the People’s Republic of China are negotiating to buy partial or total shares of private Italian companies that work in the international Free Port […]

Vienna: the Börsen-Kurier about Trieste’s legal action on taxation VS the Italian Government

Vienna: the Börsen-Kurier about Trieste’s legal action on taxation VS the Italian Government

Since six months, the Italian political system is forcing its media to stay completely silent about a legal action on taxation versus the Italian Government, opened by the International Provisional Representative of the Free Territory of Trieste with the support of the Free Trieste Movement and of hundreds of citizens and enterprises (LINK). But Italian […]

The decree about the administrative management of the international Free Port of Trieste

The decree about the administrative management of the international Free Port of Trieste

On 13 July 2017 the Italian Government announced the signature of the Ministerial Decree, awaited for 23 years, for the administrative organization of the Free Zones of the international Free Port of the Free Territory of Trieste, now published on the Italian Official Gazette No. 177 of 31 July 2107 (LINK). But, at the same […]

The Italian sabotage of the strategic ports of Trieste and Koper

The Italian sabotage of the strategic ports of Trieste and Koper

Analysis by Paolo G. Parovel On 30 May 2016 the Italian Ministry of the Environment of the Renzi Government issued and published on its official website a decree that allows the realization of a LNG terminal of multinational company Gas Natural in the port of Trieste (LINK). Italian politicians and press, who in Trieste are […]