VARESE – Security divides, the abolition of the duty on cross-border tax almost unites the Varese city council. A two-sided session that took place this evening (Wednesday 17 April) in the Salone Estense.
Sparkling overture with “self-motion” (as the Northern League councilors have more or less defined it) on Security which “climbs” the agenda and is immediately addressed, providing the most lively moments of the evening. Attention, nothing sensational, let’s be clear. Even if on the question that takes its cue from the Biumo news story (episode immediately downsized within a few hours), the two opposing fronts, the majority on one side and the Northern League (with some absences) on the other played their game.
The majority, by voice of the councillor Lorenzo Macchi, teases, provokes the Northern League councilors and dismantles the bombastic “hot” exits of the Northern League members. Emanuele Monti and Stefano Angei in turn they keep the point about Varese which needs greater security, they highlight that «for the second time the majority councilor presents a motion on issues within the competence of the Commission which he himself chairs and they respond with a double request: «One report every two months on the security situation to be brought to the Commission, which among other things never meets. Second, increase the budget chapter on local police. Also because the provincial capital has one of the poorest budgets on the issue if we compare it to that of other cities.”
Requests sent back to the senders with Macchi closing the intervention with a «Enough alarmism, enough terrorism on security in Varese» and then with councilor Raffaele Catalano who accepts the request for commitments from the dem councilor and reels off some data confirming that Varese is safe: «The 2021 – 2022 difference on the total crimes is minus 4%; 7% fewer crimes against property and 21% fewer crimes related to drugs.”
«Remove that tax»
To bring some serenity back to the Estense Hall it was councilor Luca Paris with a motion on the “cancellation of the health tax paid by cross-border workers”, a topic that suspended party differences to reflect on the protection of workers. Relaxed debate and abstention vote announced by the League on the Paris document. Which started from the 2024 budget law which introduced an annual tax to be paid by cross-border workers which will vary between 3% and 6% of the annual net income and which the definitive rate will be decided by the individual Regions; and from the consideration that «frontier workers (approximately 30,000 in the Province of Varese, 2022 data) represent a significant number of the inhabitants of the border municipalities and also of the residents of the Municipality of Varese, and that they are an important resource of our territorial and economic reality. To then commit «the mayor and the council to ask the government to cancel the new health tax paid by cross-border workers and to the Lombardy Region, in the meantime, to suspend it; to ask the Lombardy Region to promote an action aimed at challenging the rule providing for the new health tax before the constitutional judge; to involve the competent institutional figures so that the new health tax paid by cross-border workers can be repealed”.
Motion which was approved with the unanimous vote of the majority, with the abstention of Lega, Forza Italia and Roberto Puricelli and the vote against of Fratelli d’Italia and Lombardia Ideale.
cross-border healthcare tax safety – MALPENSA24
Tags: Security divides health tax crossborder workers unites Varese council
 unites the Varese council){kind=link}