Maneuvering the home node: Meloni "Let’s not raise taxes"

On the day Parliament approved the text of Structural Budget Plan (PSB)which will now be sent to Brussels, holds the hypothesis of an update of the cadastral estimates for those who have benefited from building bonuses, which is accompanied by the search for the so-called ‘ghost houses’ that have never been registered. The issue of housing sees the majority forces expressing different sensitivities, with Forza Italia and the League immediately requesting there be no new taxes on properties. In the meantime, the debate on the possible rebalancing of excise duties on fuel continues.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni clarifies: “I read imaginative statements, according to which the government would like increase taxes on citizens. It’s false. Left-wing governments did this, we lower taxes as employees, working mothers and VAT numbers know well.” From the Democratic Party, secretary Elly Schlein replies: “We saw Giorgia Meloni in a video openly lying to the village. I don’t know whether to be more worried or amazed by his ability.”

Then he adds: “It is written in a document approved by the Council of Ministers, the PSB, on page 116, to be precise.”The knot of the house. Yesterday, during the hearing on the PSB in the Budget Commission, the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti explained that in compliance with the commitments made in the PSB, a possible “updating of cadastral archives which must include properties not registered to date”. That is, houses and buildings never declared to the land register. And then the review of the “values ​​for those properties which have achieved a structural improvement following redevelopment interventions financed in whole or in part by funds public”.

That is, the Superbonus and other tax tools used to facilitate restructuring in the first post-Covid pandemic phase, the final bill of which exceeds 200 billion euros. The owner of the Mef specified that in the land registry “it is not a question of updating market values”, but of “going and looking for ghost houses and specifying that those who carry out building renovations are obliged to update the land registry data”.

The guidelines for the next maneuver are set: confirmation of cutting the tax wedge, of the reduction of Irpef to three rates and support for families, especially larger ones. The text is expected in CDM in the coming weeks.

If families don’t grow, GDP cannot grow. Giancarlo Giorgetti, speaking to the Federal Council of the League, outlined the line of the budget law, indicating long-term results. The greatest resources will be released in 2026 but we must not – he underlined according to what was reported by those present at the meeting – look to immediate consensus but to the good of the country.

Therefore, a sustainable budget law, the one that Giorgetti would have illustrated, built to resolve the problems on the table. The first urgency – the owner of the Mef has been repeating for months – is to tackle the birth rate and demographic decline. Every year 350 thousand Italians disappear, so how can the GDP of our country?, the question of the manager of the ministry of via XX Settembre who illustrated the budget plan. “You cannot imagine a 3-4% growth in GDP” with the numbers on births in Italy, analyzed the minister speaking to the Chamber.

Among the majority forces, FI would remain waiting to understand in black and white how the search for ghost houses would be put into practice, while reiterating the principle that house taxes should not be increased.

Confconstruction tries to clarify the rules by recalling that the tax reform approved just over a year ago provides for “the strengthening of tools and models organizational structures that encourage the sharing of data and documents”, also to facilitate “the identification of unregistered and illegal properties”. While on the cadastral classification, the association recalls that the Revenue can already carry out checks on “any effects on the income of the property”.
Excise chapter. Giorgetti, speaking at Montecitorio, reiterated that: “Hauliers have a specific regulation and are not affected by the so-called alignment of excise duties”.