Chapter La solidarietà fiscale nell’ordinamento costituzionale italiano tra teoria e ideologia

Abstract

Contribution states that the interpretative uncertainties of the article 53 of the Italian Constitution and related legislation – characterized by tax amnesties alternating with a rise in tax rates – depends on the confusion between constitutional theory and constitutional policy. In particular, the inclusion of the principle of de facto equality (art. 3 (2) of the Italian Constitution) in the prescriptive discourse causes a random and unpredictable interpretation of solidarity, ultimately redounding on the form of the Italian welfare state.