Intensified controls on those exploiting foreign license plates, behind which criminal phenomena also hide. The details emerge from a written response by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini to a question presented to the Senate by Brothers of Italy with the first signatory Sergio Rastrelli. The question highlighted (based on input from trade associations including the victims of duty association “Carlo La Catena”) the “growing problem in Campania, particularly in Naples and its province, of cars and motorcycles registered with foreign plates, almost always Polish or Bulgarian.”
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The numbers of the phenomenon
The question reported that “according to the National Register of Foreign Vehicles, based on data relating to the year 2025, out of a total of 53,000 vehicles with foreign plates in Italy, 35,000 are in Naples (luxury vehicles, SUVs, scooters).”
Foreign registration to avoid fines, road tax and more
The question also emphasized that “foreign registration, which allows Italian citizens, by virtue of fictitious powers of attorney, to drive vehicles formally belonging to others, can reasonably be attributed to the attempt to avoid the notification of fines, to avoid paying road tax and inspections, as well as to circumvent the territorial heterogeneity that plagues Southern Italy in the application of very high insurance premiums for civil liability arising from road accidents, particularly in Naples, where the annual insurance for a scooter can reach amounts close to five times those in other parts of Italy.”
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VAT revenue losses
Furthermore, according to the two questioners, “the foreign registration of the vehicle fleet also results in significant VAT revenue losses for the State on vehicle purchases, non-collection of registration taxes, municipal and regional taxes, annual possession taxes under regional jurisdiction, and a lack of tax on the profits of insurance companies due to the reduction of premiums actually collected.”
The role of organized crime
Senators Rastrelli and Balboni pointed out that there is “reasonable grounds to believe that this system favors opaque economic circuits, if not directly linked to organized crime, which thrive on the asymmetric rules of a system still lacking adequate public regulation as a whole.” Hence the request to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, and the Ministry of the Interior whether, within their respective competences, they intend – among other things – “to adopt specific initiatives to counter the phenomenon.”
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