You need little more than 1 billion to proceed with the changes to the budget law requested by the majority political forces. The government works to find the necessary coverage which could come from a partial retouching of the hard work for banks and insurance companies, increasing the tax to +2.5%. Other funds are expected from the revaluation of the domestic gold. But the covers should still be identified with certainty; from what filters through, it will be the heart of the work in the coming weeks.
Checks would also be underway on the financial part of the measure which plans to apply one 2 euro tax on small parcels of value under 150 euros coming from outside the EU. The principle established by Mef what remains is that the changes must be made with balances unchanged. Some proposals will therefore be successful, others may be postponed. From Monday there are three weeks to approve the changes to the text in the Commission and in the Senate by Christmas. Give it to him credit institutions an addition of between 200 and 300 million could arrive, but a new meeting between the parties will first be needed.
After two hours of summit a Palazzo Chigi among the majority leaders to finalize possible revisions of the text, Palazzo Chigi speaks of a “climate of great sharing” and “agreement on some issues that are still open” with an agreement on the short rentalson the expansion of the exemption ISEE on the first house, on article 18 referring to dividends. Furthermore, the possibility of compensation has also been clarified for social security contributions of businesses, and measures in favor of law enforcement agencies.
Details on short-term rentals
Come on short-term rentals for tourist purposesit is reported, is being discussed: one of the proposals that emerged at the table which all the majority parties would agree on provides that the rate for the first house remain unchanged at 21%, while from the second it would go to 26% set by the text passed in the Council of Ministers and from the third the proceeds would be considered business income. However, the debate on the number of properties would still remain open.
Statements from group leaders
“An assessment is being made on the roofing. Just over “a billion euros” is needed for the interventions that we want to carry out overall zero balance“, explains the group leader of FdI in the Senate Lucio Malan. “For example, the question of short rentals – he adds – it covers itself due to an internal mechanism”. While the group leader of Forza Italia a Palazzo Madama Maurizio Gasparri specifies: “The problems are always the same, but with an openness towards positive solutions on the main issues that have been addressed, with various hypotheses on the roofing. So a positive job.”
Amendments to the budget law
Meanwhile in Budget Commission in the Senate 105 amendments have been deemed inadmissible, in whole or in part, to budget law. Eighteen texts were assessed as ineligible due to extraneous subject matter, while 87 due to the absence of adequate information roofing. In the next 24 hours they can be replaced with a one-to-one ratio with as many amendments from the groups that presented them. Among the texts excluded is the amendment of Lega on the sale of the shares of Mes to finance the fund for the reduction of tax pressurethe one on civil liability of doctorswhich had been met with opposition from the Ministry of Health and trade unions. They pass the admissibility screening budget law instead three of the four amendments tabled by FdI in the matter of building amnesty.
Gold reserves and the position of the ECB
Green light also for the text of FdIwhich asks us to recognize that “the gold reserves managed by Bank of Italy belong to the State, in the name of Italian people“. The Central bank in fact it holds over 2,400 tons of oro – distributed in vaults between Italia, United States, United Kingdom e Swiss – as a guarantee of solvency of public payments. The BCE in this regard it states that it has not “been consulted by the Italian authorities regarding this proposed amendment” and that it “has no comments to make”.