The income meter is enough to agitate the majority forces. “Forza Italia has always been against the income meter”, report the Azzurri when asked about the possible use of the decree that launches the 2016 income control tool, comparing citizens’ income with their spending capacity. Among the Azzurri there is some doubt about the measure and the Azzurri managers, as far as we know, are checking what happened with the government. Also because, they underline, “it would conflict with the provision of the composition with creditors contained in the tax delegation”. «Do they put it back? I really don’t think so…” replied the Italian senator Maurizio Gasparri to the reporters at Palazzo Madama. And in the end, after many doubts, the Deputy Minister of Economy Maurizio Leo agreed with the Presidency of the Council to report to the next Council of Ministers. The same sources underline that the issuing of the decree, established by the Conte 1 Government but never implemented, had been awaited for more than six years to regulate the actual passing of the so-called ‘Income Meter’ introduced by the Renzi Government in 2015.
The League: ask the Brothers of Italy
“I understand that it is a provision made by deputy minister Leo so ask FdI,” the leader of the League group in the Senate, Massimiliano Romeo, told ANSA. “I just find it a little strange as a proposal, because we in the center-right have always been critical of these tools,” added the senator. Marco Osnato, FdI, president of the Chamber Finance Commission, intervened to quell the controversy. When asked about the measure he said: «I don’t think it’s an epochal turning point. It is an update of some parameters. It does not water down or affect the tax reform or the attitude of the Meloni government. Of course, it is a parameter that exists and must be updated. And it is also an answer to those who say that we don’t deal with tax evasion. Maybe it’s causing a ‘sensation’ because we are in the election campaign…”.
