The first instance tax courts of Nuoro and Oristano will be abolished .
The alarm was raised by the regional councillor of Uniti per Todde, Sebastian Cocco , according to whom this is the effect of the national reform of the geography of tax justice , which provides for the closure of 22 out of 103 offices throughout Italy and which, in Sardinia, reduces the entire regional system to just two Courts: Sassari and the regional capital .
"This is a serious decision," said Sebastian Cocco, Regional Councilor and President of the Uniti per Alessandra Todde group, "which represents yet another retreat by the State from Sardinia and a direct blow to the island's inland areas . It's not a rationalization, but a choice that concentrates services and empties the territories."
According to Cocco, the criterion used to justify the closure is inadequate and penalizing : "The reform is based almost exclusively on the number of appeals processed, an abstract parameter that may perhaps work on the mainland but which deliberately ignores the specificities of an island territory: its vast geography, the difficulty of connections, the administrative fragmentation and the high number of municipalities and tax authorities."
The consequences will be immediate and tangible for citizens and businesses: "Professionals, taxpayers, and administrative employees will be forced to relocate to the remaining offices, resulting in additional costs, longer waiting times, and significant organizational disruptions. Entire areas of central Sardinia will lose another public institution. This means less access to justice and more obstacles to exercising rights."
Furthermore, the reform would conflict with Delegated Law 111 of 2023: "The delegation requires evaluating multiple criteria—territorial size, population, tax authorities, workload, and income indicators—which in practice are reduced to a single numerical threshold. This isn't administrative simplification; it's a stretch."
"In particular," Cocco emphasizes, "the Tax Court of Nuoro must be maintained, as it is the only Sardinian capital without a rail link. This makes access to other courts even more costly and complex, and is due to infrastructural delays attributable to the state." "This is not efficiency," Cocco concludes, "it is centralization. It is not rationalization; it is institutional abandonment. I ask Sardinian parliamentarians to intervene immediately with the government to correct a reform that penalizes Sardinia and denies the principle of insularity. In Sardinia, distance from the state is not measured in kilometers, but in services that close. Removing justice from the territories doesn't make the state more efficient: it makes it more distant."
