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Taxation in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022 · based on 2,454,718 parliamentary interventions

The theme of taxation appears in 44,631 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1997, with 1,150 interventions.

This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.

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Trend over time

1948: 391 interventions1949: 558 interventions1950: 655 interventions1951: 671 interventions1952: 507 interventions1953: 329 interventions1954: 643 interventions1955: 610 interventions1956: 499 interventions1957: 582 interventions1958: 508 interventions1959: 599 interventions1960: 441 interventions1961: 655 interventions1962: 567 interventions1963: 361 interventions1964: 644 interventions1965: 418 interventions1966: 667 interventions1967: 662 interventions1968: 405 interventions1969: 444 interventions1970: 996 interventions1971: 792 interventions1972: 324 interventions1973: 540 interventions1974: 524 interventions1975: 416 interventions1976: 397 interventions1977: 500 interventions1978: 467 interventions1979: 258 interventions1980: 533 interventions1981: 466 interventions1982: 822 interventions1983: 887 interventions1984: 856 interventions1985: 737 interventions1986: 746 interventions1987: 393 interventions1988: 636 interventions1989: 695 interventions1990: 592 interventions1991: 670 interventions1992: 610 interventions1993: 584 interventions1994: 475 interventions1995: 490 interventions1996: 589 interventions1997: 1150 interventions1998: 700 interventions1999: 764 interventions2000: 883 interventions2001: 399 interventions2002: 643 interventions2003: 540 interventions2004: 665 interventions2005: 499 interventions2006: 858 interventions2007: 736 interventions2008: 538 interventions2009: 771 interventions2010: 550 interventions2011: 713 interventions2012: 856 interventions2013: 757 interventions2014: 972 interventions2015: 674 interventions2016: 530 interventions2017: 223 interventions2018: 385 interventions2019: 670 interventions2020: 572 interventions2021: 465 interventions2022: 307 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning taxation in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
ORAZIO SANTAGATIMovimento Sociale Italiano323
PIETRO ARMANIAlleanza Nazionale198
FRANCO PIROPartito Socialista Italiano191
VINCENZO VISCOPartito Comunista Italiano190
GIUSEPPE RUBINACCIMovimento Sociale Italiano183
LEONELLO RAFFAELLIPartito Comunista Italiano165
DANIELE MOLGORAPolo delle Libertà142
RAFFAELE VALENSISEMovimento Sociale Italiano136
NICOLA BONOPolo del Buon Governo135
CARLO TASSIMovimento Sociale Italiano129

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Democrazia Cristiana4,510
Partito Comunista Italiano3,602
Movimento Sociale Italiano2,405
L'Ulivo2,255
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà2,148
Partito Democratico1,935
Lega Nord1,923
Partito Socialista Italiano1,444
Movimento 5 Stelle1,035
Polo per le Libertà991

How these figures were obtained

The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with tasse OR fisco OR imposte OR tributi OR "pressione fiscale" OR "evasione fiscale". Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs several times within it. The source of the texts is the ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words. Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.

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