Tractors, harvesting equipment, irrigation motor pumps: between March and May, while the crisis in the Middle East pushed fuel prices up, agricultural businesses continued to refuel without discounts. Now the reimbursement is coming.
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90 million allocated
Masaf and Mef have signed the implementing decree of the tax credit provided by the March Fiscal decree, which recognizes up to 20% of the expenditure incurred for diesel and gasoline in those three months — including heating of vegetable greenhouses — within the overall limit of 90 million for 2026 and with an individual cap of 50,000 euros per company, as required by the EU temporary framework on State aid related to the Middle East crisis.
The platform to apply
The management of the benefit is entrusted to Agea, which will receive applications through an online platform (window of at least 20 days, by September 30) and will determine the effective rate: the full 20% if requests remain within the ceiling, otherwise a proportional allocation. The credit will be usable in F24 compensation by December 31, without generating income or IRAP base.
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Mixed reactions from farmers
The measure was met with mixed feelings from the agricultural world. Copagri was satisfied as it had committed to the institutions for a rapid enactment of the implementing decree on agricultural diesel. Greater skepticism came instead from Confeuro, for whom the measure is not sufficient to face the increased costs suffered by agricultural producers in recent months. “We thank the Ministry of Agriculture,” commented Copagri president Tommaso Battista, “for promptly responding to our appeal to proceed with the issuance of the awaited interministerial decree Masaf-Mef which defines the implementation methods of the contribution, in the form of a tax credit, for the purchase of agricultural diesel.” The anticipation for the measure from agricultural companies “was motivated by the fact that agricultural diesel, together with fertilizers, represents the main budget item of a company,” Battista continued, “so much so that these two production factors alone constitute about half of the average production costs sustained in the Primary sector. For this reason, we invite the Executive to proceed with the same urgency with the issuance of the implementing decree necessary to define the procedures for granting the contribution and the documentation needed to use the 40 million euros to support, with a tax credit recognized up to 30% of the expenditure incurred, the purchases of fertilizers made in March, April, and May.”
More critical was the president of Confeuro, Andrea Tiso. “The diesel discount decided by the government, equal to 17 cents between excise duties and VAT until August 6, together with the tax credit intended for the agricultural sector,” explained Tiso, “represents a necessary but insufficient intervention given the seriousness of the situation. It is a stopgap measure that does not address the real causes of the emergency nor offers structural responses to families and businesses, now crushed by rising energy costs and international instability.”
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