Currently the tax system of the University of Padua guarantees to students with an ISEE score of up to 25,000 points a total exemption from paying taxes.

A linear increase is therefore applied in the macro - range ranging from 25,001 to 60,000 ISEE points; between 60 and 70,000 points there is no increase meaning all students in this bracket pay an identical fee, while higher taxes are paid by students with an ISEE score above 70,000, which also does not vary as the ISEE increases.

This tax system does not provide an adequate differentiation between very distant ISEE ranges. We believe that in the range between 25 and 50,000 ISEE points, taxes should increase much more slowly and regularly than in the range between 50 and 60,000 points. Such a change would help students with medium and medium-low ISEEscore, especially in the current, critical, economic situation. 

Moreover, in the range between 25 and 30,000 ISEE points an increase in taxes with an even greater gradient than in the range between 40 and 50,000 points.

Starting from these considerations, and taking as reference the tax systems of other Italian universities, such as the University of Milan and the University of Milan Bicocca, we propose to reform the taxation system by introducing different gradients according to the macro-band of ISEE to which students belong.