The reduction of the IRPEF for the middle class remains at the first point. But among the important chapters in the agenda of the next economic maneuver there will also be interventions at work and pensions. Starting with the blockade, now taken for granted, of the additional three months that will be needed since 2017 to retire.
A block that will initially have a limited cost but that – judging by the calculations of the experts – will have a weight on public accounts equal to 3 billion euros. The hunt for resources has therefore begun. Of course there are the cuts of a spending review always possible, but a new contribution from the banking system remains in the sights of a part of the government.
The accounts, on the resources that can be put on the table, will be done in September, checking the entities and the impact on the economy of the tira and spring tied to the duties. It is already clear that many funds will be needed. Starting from IRPEF and pensions.
The attention to the “middle class”, which is part of the promises indicated by the premier already at the end of the last maneuver costs about 4 billion and is now considered a priority also by the League, which however also wants to support a new scrapping, the Quinquies: for “the tax collection cards – says the leader of the party Matteo Salvini – who hold millions of Italian workers and workers hostage”.
On the middle class, the hypothesized intervention provides for the reduction from 35 to 33% of the rate which now ranges from 30,000 to 50,000 euros, extending it up to 60,000. Savings for a single taxpayer – calculated the National Foundation of Accountants – could start from 257 euros to get to 627 euros. But to strengthen income there are also several proposals on the carpet concerning wages and divide the majority a little. They range from the flat tax for the increases related to second level contracts up to the proposal to push the accelerator on the contractual renewals by triggering the increases based on inflation after a certain period of contractual holiday.
Then there is the pensions chapter, which does not only provide the stop to the three months of more work due to the increase in life expectancy, a stop taken for granted for which, however, it will be necessary to find resources from 2027 onwards. In fact, there are to finance the increases in the pensions due to inflation (it travels on 1.7% in 2025), on which the government has always put some stakes and on which the Consulta has recently been called to express itself again.
Not to mention the exit interventions at 64 years of age, which also in the totally contributory regime have a cost. Resources? The good performance of the accounts can help and certainly constant maintenance of the shopping allows revenues. But the banks remain in the viewfinder. “Of the economic subjects who, last year, gained 46 billion euros, a contribution to the growth of the country and families can give it,” Salvini reiterates.
The node is that the last maneuver on banks and insurance has already blocked for two years, therefore also on 2026, the benefits of the deferred taxes. However, there is another chapter, which concerns them. It is a share of income that institutions can compensate with previous losses, reduced for 2025 to 65% and that in 2026 banks will be able to recover that it is worth 1.2 billion. On the companies front, it is then thought to refinance the reward IRES, wanted by Confindustria, introduced with the last maneuver but experienced only for this year: it provides cutting of the rate from 24 to 20% for companies that invest and hire.
For companies – revealed the Minister of Companies Adolfo Urso – a single measure is also assumed that puts transition 4.0 and 5.0 to a system – which have not worked fully – with the possibility if national resources are used to introduce simpler and more immediate procedures.