Tax contributors financing political parties in Italy 2016-2023

After the abolition of public financing in Italy, political parties can fundraise only through donations and private contributions from taxpayers, who can allocate 0.2 percent of their income tax to political parties. The number of citizens who decided to contribute to the financing scheme has always augmented, together with the amount of money that Italians decided to devote to political associations. In fact, 970,000 people allocated part of their income tax to parties in 2016, representing only 2.38 percent of the total taxpayers. However, after seven years, this option was chosen by more than 1.7 million Italians, 4.2 percent of all the contributors, the double compared to 2016. The Democratic Party has always been the largest recipient of the private funding mechanism, and it was able to collect 8.1 million euros in 2023, 3.3 million euros more than the ruling party Brothers of Italy.