Waiting for the new majority summit on the maneuver, which could be Wednesday or Thursday, upon Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s return from the G20 in South Africa. The meeting will serve to define the final touches to the Budget Law and find a definitive agreement on the amendments proposed by the government parties but with the aim that the “balances must remain unchanged”.
Meanwhile, from Johannesburg, the Prime Minister expresses “great satisfaction” with Moody’s upgrade on Italy, “an important result that hasn’t happened for 23 years”, she underlines. «The promotion is a confirmation of the markets’ trust not only in the government, but in Italy as a whole», says Meloni. Among the issues to be resolved at the next summit at Palazzo Chigi are, in particular, those on short-term rentals and banks. On short-term rentals “I believe we will arrive at a solution that will leave the situation as it is,” said Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani. «Maybe it will be possible to reduce the number of properties after which taxation will increase. Today there are five and they could reach three, but it is important that the tax does not increase”, explained the Fi leader. The League also asks to cancel the increase to 26%, foreseen by the measure, and maintain the current rate at 21% for the first property. On the contribution of the banks, however, the two parties are divided. «The banking issue is closed for us and we will no longer open it, the point of balance found satisfies us and the entire government majority», said Alessandro Cattaneo, head of Departments of Forza Italia, underlining that «taxes are removed, not added»
. With an amendment, the League instead asks to increase the IRAP for banks by a further 0.5%, bringing it to 2.5 points, making medium-small banks with assets of up to 30 billion pay only an excess of 500 thousand euros. An amendment that has become a case in the last few hours is that of Senator Michaela Biancofiore, which provides for the civil liability of doctors in the event of damage to patients. The Ministry of Health has announced that it will “express a contrary opinion”. In fact, “the current legislation guarantees adequate protection, supplemented by the recent regulation on gross negligence, and it is not considered useful or appropriate to introduce a change which would in fact go in the opposite direction to what has been proposed so far by Minister Schillaci on medical negligence”, underlines the ministry in a note. And the opposition, the doctors’ association, the doctors’ unions, the health professions are clamoring to withdraw it. Meanwhile, the CGIL warns that without a stop to fiscal drag, the middle class will be hit. “Without neutralizing the fiscal drag, by indexing the Irpef to inflation, the Government does not help the so-called middle class, but favors it, indeed determines its impoverishment” and protects “the millionaires”, states the union. According to a simulation developed by the CGIL economics office, the cumulative drain suffered in the three-year period 2023-2025 by wages between 28 and 50 thousand euros gross was between a minimum of 1,900 euros and a maximum of over 3,600 euros.