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30 Income taxes

Income taxes for the year, which amounted to €509 million (€690 million in 2013), can be broken down as follows:

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(€ million)

2013

2014

 

IRES

IRAP

Total

IRES

IRAP

Total

Current taxes

662

131

793

623

108

731

Current taxes for the year

681

131

812

623

106

729

Adjustments for current taxes relating to previous years

(19)

 

(19)

 

2

2

Deferred and prepaid taxes

(79)

(24)

(103)

(217)

(5)

(222)

Deferred taxes

(62)

(25)

(87)

(67)

(1)

(68)

Prepaid taxes

(17)

1

(16)

(30)

(4)

(34)

Adjustment to deferred taxes (Robin Hood Tax)

 

 

 

(120)

 

(120)

 

583

107

690

406

103

509

Income taxes amounted to €509 million, consisting of €731 million in current taxes, which were partially offset by net deferred tax assets totalling €222 million.

The reconciliation of the theoretical tax charge (calculated by applying the corporation tax (IRES) and regional production tax (IRAP) rates in force in Italy) with the actual tax charge for the year can be broken down as follows:

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(€ million)

2013

2014

 

Tax rate

Balance

Tax rate

Balance

(*)

Equal to 10.5% and 6.5% respectively in 2013 and 2014.

IRES

 

 

 

 

Pre-tax net profit

 

1,607

 

1,707

IRES due, calculated based on the theoretical tax rate

27.5%

442

27.5%

469

Changes to the theoretical rate:

 

 

 

 

- Adjustment to deferred taxes (Robin Hood Tax)

 

 

(7.03%)

(120)

- Non-taxable profits

(0.6%)

(9)

(1.64%)

(28)

- Impact of the application of the additional IRES (Robin Hood Tax) (Decree Law 138/2011, converted into Law 148/2011) (*)

9.2%

148

5.10%

87

- Adjustments related to previous years

(0.4%)

(6)

 

 

- Other permanent tax differences

0.5%

8

(0.12%)

(2)

IRES due for the year recorded on the income statement

36.3%

583

23.8%

406

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2013

2014

 

Tax rate

Balance

Tax rate

Balance

IRAP

 

 

 

 

Difference between value and production costs

 

2,127

 

2,075

IRAP due, calculated based on the theoretical tax rate

3.9%

83

3.9%

81

Changes to the theoretical rate

 

 

 

 

- Personnel costs not included in the difference between value and production costs

0.7%

15

0.7%

14

- Other permanent differences

0.4%

9

0.4%

8

IRAP due for the year recorded in the income statement

5%

107

4.96%

103

An analysis of deferred and prepaid taxes based on the nature of the significant temporary differences that generated them can be found in Note 21 – “Deferred tax liabilities”.

Taxes related to components of comprehensive income

Current and deferred taxes related to other components of comprehensive income can be broken down as follows:

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2013

2014

 

Pre-tax value

Tax effect

Post-tax value

Pre-tax value

Tax effect

Post-tax value

- Remeasurement of defined-benefit plans for employees

6

(2)

4

(15)

4

(11)

- Portion of equity investments measured using the equity method pertaining to “other components of comprehensive income”

(5)

 

(5)

6

 

6

- Change in fair value of cash flow hedge derivatives

(1)

 

(1)

(3)

1

(2)

Other components of comprehensive income

 

(2)

(2)

(12)

5

(7)

Deferred/prepaid taxes

 

(2)

 

 

5

 

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