«A discount is expected on diesel and only diesel for an equivalent value between excise duty and VAT of 17 cents, until August 6th». The Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, said this in a press conference after the Council of Ministers. “The cost of the operation is around 125 million euros,” added Giorgetti.
“Brent falling, hopefully a decrease in the price at the pump”
«We have not intervened on excise duties on tobacco. We will monitor the price trend on a daily basis as it evolves based on conflict situations. It is clear that the situation is evolving day by day. Today, for example, the price of Brent is falling, the hope is that in a few days this will also translate into a decrease in the price at the pump”.
«Ready to ask Parliament for the budget deviation to make room for the measures»
«The budget cycle begins in September. We will have to make the best use of what will be the possibility – if Parliament gives us a mandate in this sense – of the national clause derogating from the Stability Pact. Next week – the Minister of Economy remarked – we will go to the Chamber to ask Parliament to give us a mandate to proceed in Europe: this will open up significant budget spaces in terms of deviation, but precisely because it is a deviation they will have to be used in a very intelligent and targeted way”. “The discussion is open, the government will try to do the best things despite an objectively very very complicated external situation,” added Giorgetti. Responding to those who asked him about a video by Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani on the fact that the government intends to lower taxes, reducing tax on thirteenths, canceling car and motorbike tax and reducing the Irpef rate, Giorgetti replied: “I would also like to do many other things”.
In the decree 100 million for the former Ilva
The other article of the decree approved today by the Council of Ministers, «which was conceived before the Milan sentence, provides – Giorgetti remarked – a further 100 million in favor of the extraordinary administration of Ilva to complete the process of transfer of the activities to be limited to the cold activities which were in the advanced phase of definition and which will now have to be updated based on the sentence that occurred».
The effects on bills
«The wave on bills, if the situation is not resolved, will arrive. The government has already taken measures, and will take others, also on that front.”