The Senate Budget Committee concluded its examination of the Cohesion decree. While waiting to conclude the vote on the over 700 amendments presented, among the proposals set aside in the legislative decree remain that of the League on seaside resorts and that of Forza Italia onabolition of the income meter law and the May ministerial decree on the matter, which was then suspended. On this last point, the undersecretary for the economy Federico Freni had anticipated in the morning that “Forza Italia’s right requests are widely shared and will be enhanced by the government in a future regulatory provision“. From what we now understand, the Executive would be willing to give indications on the overcoming of this fiscal instrument starting from this Thursday when the Council of Ministers will examine a scheme of Legislative Decreein the context of implementation of the tax delegation, in particular corrective to the composition with creditors.
Moreover, the government representative added, the anti-tax evasion tool “It hasn’t been used for years” And “no one plans to use“. Deputy Minister Leo, Minister Giorgetti and the entire majority are therefore at work “to respond in a concrete and objective way to the needs of taxpayers with the seriousness that has always characterized this government“. As for the timing of the new provision on the income meter, Freni did not exclude the use of a decree or a parliamentary process: “Let’s hope – he anticipated – it will be there Parliament to be able to valorise this request in a broader framework than the many regulatory measures that will be there“. The Budget commission of Palazzo Madama will meet again tomorrow morning, starting at 9.
Forza Italia rejoices: “Success of our battle”
“Our battle for the total and definitive abolition of the income meter is successful“, the Forza Italia senators announced in a note Gasparri and Damiani, respectively group leader of the blue movement at Palazzo Madama and at the Budget commission. Deputy Minister Freni said “share this proposal of ours and, as we have said several times, we intend to define it even better from a technical point of view to include it in the measures under consideration by Parliament“. The two parliamentarians add that they also had a discussion with “the highest levels of government, who confirmed the sharing the proposal of Forza Italia and the need to include the solution we hope for in imminent measures“.
Gasparri and Damiani recall how the party founded by Silvio Berlusconi has always been open to a “reformulation of the text to make it even more corresponding to the need we propose“. However, they do not intend to distance themselves from the firmness in substance, i.e. the abolition of the income meter, but they still consider themselves “flexible in shape“. What was addressed by those in the government who are most responsible for this matter “reassures us and can make us say, right now, that Forza Italia’s battle for the abolition of the income meter – they conclude – it will certainly be won in Parliament, with a vote that could be as broad as possible“.
Seaside resorts, the League’s amendment also in the Agriculture decree
Among the amendments set aside by the Cohesion decree there is also the one put forward by the League regarding the seaside with which it is intended to support the mapping conducted by the national executive of free and assigned beaches. The request also proposes to establish that the compensation to the outgoing concessionaires be paid by the incoming concessionaires, in the case of a tender, as well as the right of pre-emption: this is the possibility for the concession holders to declare their will to apcontinue management before the end of the existing concession. The League has proposed the same modification to the Agriculture decree, so it is likely that the government tomorrow – during the conclusion of the vote – may decide to temporarily set aside the request.
“We will turn the amendment into an agenda“, he announces Massimiliano Romeo, group leader in the Northern League Senate. “There is a political commitment and we have had ample reassurance from Palazzo Chigi that the issue will be addressed in the next Councils of Ministers with a rule that we will present in the next decrees“. The Northern League parliamentarian continues by underlining that, “contrary to what we have read in recent days, our proposal was not a stretch but one request for urgent intervention from the governmentconsistent with the demands of an important sector for the country“.
Here the work was recognized”carried out by the technical table established at the Presidency of the Council. We acted with the responsibility and coherence that have always characterized the League“, he comments.
