Director: Giacomo Orlandi

The Divisione Finanze (Finance Division) includes an operational area (financial services and contributions), but also accounts for cost and revenue movements that are inherently transversal to the entire City Administration. These include, for example, taxes, interest costs and revenues, depreciation on assets, costs and revenues from real estate assets, costs for employment programs and social-oriented positions, insurance, etc.

Tasks and activities

  • collaborates with the City Council for the implementation of financial policy
  • prepares the Budget and Final Accounts with guidelines for the City Administration Services
  • defines the Financial Plan
  • ensures the accounting operations of the City Administration Services
  • collaborates with the Services for effective management and use of financial resources
  • manages the issuance of invoices from the main City Services to third parties, ensuring their collection
  • manages excess liquidity through temporary investments, the municipal cash flow, and insurance
  • sets general objectives for the Ufficio contribuzioni (Contributions Office), particularly overseeing tax revenue management
  • drafts reports and informative comments for the City Council, for the Services, and third parties

Services

The Servizi finanziari (Financial Services) consist of four main areas of activity:

  • Accounting: management of liquidity and cash flows, coordination of budget and final accounts preparation, management of supplier invoices, financial advice to the Administration, etc.
  • Collection: collections, invoices, relations with Consortia, the Canton, and Foundations, management of various issues related to aggregations
  • Investments
  • Institutional relations and new projects: preparation of reports, financial reporting, etc.

The tasks of the servizio Contribuzioni (Contributions Service) involve the collection of ordinary and special municipal taxes. The service is divided into four main areas of activity:

  • assessment of natural persons and legal entities
  • collection
  • special procedures and amnesties
  • internal accounting

The service also provides a Sportello Contribuzioni (Contributions Desk), accessible by appointment.

Sportello contribuzioni

The English version of this page was created with the aid of automatic translation tools and may contain errors and omissions.

The original version is the page in Italian.

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Contacts

Città di Lugano
Finanze
Via della Posta 8
6900 Lugano
t. +41 58 866 71 26
[email protected]

See also