A stop to the retroactivity of installment payments over 10 years with regards to Superbonus credits and a postponement of the sugar tax until at least 2025. Forza Italia’s sub-amendments have arrived to the proposed amendment presented by the government to the Superbonus decree. In the Senate the blue party does not intend to take steps backwards and, as announced by its secretary Antonio Tajani, is asking to change the executive amendment wanted by the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti, with whom there has been no shortage of controversial exchanges in recent days. «We have never argued», assures Tajani, who however reiterates that «there is still a question regarding retroactivity. We are against it, our legal civilization does not foresee that regulations can be made with retroactive effect.” And then there is also “the Sugar tax: we are against any increase in taxes in our country” and the Sugar tax “must go hand in hand with the Plastic tax as decided in December”. In the sub-amendments presented, FI requests that the installment plan over 10 years applies only to expenses incurred after the date of entry into force of the law converting the decree. And as regards the sugar tax, a postponement of its entry into force is requested to January 1, 2025, instead of July 2024; alternatively, the exemption is proposed for the whole of 2024 and until 30 June 2026, as provided for the Plastic tax.
The proposed changes arrive during a majority meeting with the government in the Senate attended by the president of the Finance commission of Palazzo Madama Massimo Garavaglia (Lega), the rapporteur of the measure Giorgio Salvitti (FdI) and the undersecretary for the economy Federico Freni. The president of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, speaks of an «unseemly spectacle put on by the current government» and a «mystifying campaign in which the Superbonus has become the scapegoat for their inability». He does not regret the measure: «Absolutely not. He’s a scapegoat. All the political forces have jumped on the Superbonus bandwagon and are now distancing themselves, especially Giorgetti and Meloni. They only talk about the cost, isn’t it dishonest not to say the return?”. The reply from FdI arrives directly, with the deputy group leader in the Chamber Alfredo Antoniozzi: «Does President Conte say that he has nothing to apologize for for the Superbonus? Well, a measure that has caused a chasm of over two hundred billion in the accounts speaks for itself. A measure that has enriched the rich, allowing incredible speculation.” According to the leader of Italia viva, Matteo Renzi, however «it is true that Conte is to blame for writing the laws badly, but it is also true, after two years of being in government, that they too cannot make companies pay the their internal difficulties”.
