No substantial changes but targeted adjustments and unchanged balances starting from the rule on dividends. After the face-to-face meeting between Giorgia Meloni and Giancarlo Giorgetti, reported by the “Messaggero”, the majority is working on possible changes to the budget law. Which could concern primarily the measure contained in article 18 of the provision which limits access to the exclusion regime, envisaged to combat double taxation phenomena, to dividends deriving from shareholdings held, directly or indirectly through subsidiaries, to an extent of no less than 10%. The idea would be, it is reported, to work on a remodulation to avoid double taxation and therefore make the measure fairer. However, the question of coverage remains given that, technical report in hand, the intervention on dividends brings the State a billion a year. And the input reiterated on several occasions by Minister Giorgetti and Prime Minister Meloni is that of not affecting the balances in any way. But we are, however, working on a technical solution to the issue.
Another possible change could then concern the crackdown on short-term rentals even if the Prime Minister (who has in any case left the final decision to Parliament) recently defended the rationale of the measure which aims to encourage long-term rentals in favor of families. According to qualified sources in the majority, these are, at the moment, the main refinements to the budget law that are being worked on.
Then there is the Bridge chapter: in all likelihood, in fact, the budget tables will have to be remodeled in order to allow the “armoring” of the funds of the work which Matteo Salvini also spoke about.
Another measure that could change is the one that subordinates the payment of compensation to self-employed workers by public administrations to the verification of their tax and contribution regularity. The law “cannot remain in these terms because it is discriminatory” towards the self-employed, observes Lega MP Andrea De Bertoldi, explaining that “we are working to find a solution”.
In short, limited corrections despite the fact that the parties, even the majority ones, are pressing to try to collect more. Thus the League is pushing for a broadening of the number of beneficiaries of fiscal peace. “We have always said – underlines Senator Claudio Borghi – that scrapping should not have applied to total tax evaders but as it is written now it is too limiting” with the exclusion of loads resulting from investigations. But government sources explain that, at present, it is difficult to envisage an extension of the audience also and above all for a question of coverage.
Also from the Northern League, which will meet soon and collectively decide on the changes to be made, requests could also arrive on the pension front. “We will try every possible avenue”, explains a leading member of the party, to try to expand the number of beneficiaries of the freeze on the increase in the retirement age which starts in 2027.
The opposition, for their part, are working on a package of changes which will particularly concern the issues of wages, health and growth.
Meanwhile, hearings in the Senate Budget Committee will begin on Monday. It is yet to be understood who the speakers of the measure will be, who could be 4: one for each majority party. On track for FI there is Dario Damiani, who has already held this role, Claudio Borghi for Lega (even if there was also talk of Massimo Garavaglia), Mario Borghese for Nm and one between Matteo Gelmetti and Guido Liris for FdI.
«The hearings begin on Monday – attacks the Dem group leader in the Senate Francesco Boccia – and they still don’t know who will represent the majority. We have never seen a maneuver that begins without a rapporteur, blocked by mutual distrust between the government parties.” Meanwhile, the leader of the CGIL Maurizio Landini will be in Florence against the maneuver on November 7th and the USB reiterates the general strike on November 28th and a demonstration in Rome on the 29th against the “war maneuver”.