From gold to rents: what the parties demand in the 5,500 amendments for the manoeuvre

About 400 requests came from the League. The central proposal is the enlarged tax collection, which would also include taxpayers with pending assessments. 'Here,' Deputy Minister for the Economy Maurizio Leo said on the subject, 'the problem of coverage becomes even more intense. We are evaluating everything, but keeping the bar straight on the accounts as always'.

For Matteo Salvini's party, then, there is the issue of the pension. In particular on the Women's Option, given that in the government-approved ddl the measure had been deleted. Proposals are also likely for early retirement, along the lines of quota 103 (also absent in the manoeuvre). As with the question of scrapping, the knot of resources remains.

Shortly before the deadline, Forza Italia secretary Antonio Tajani called an internal meeting to reiterate the party's main interests. Three topics in particular among the 677 amendments tabled: home protection, security and law enforcement, and the reduction of taxation on productive activities, with reference to dividends, credit offsets and Irap.

In detail, the request to abolish the increase to 26% of the tax on short-term rentals (there is talk of a possible adjustment to 23%). But also not to increase to 24% the dividend tax for companies with shareholdings of less than 10% and to cancel the squeeze on compensation of credits. 

Sixty or so amendments from Noi Moderati, which calls for 'lowering to 15 per cent the flat rate on long-term rentals'. But also 'the exclusion of the first house from the calculation of the Isee (up to 200,000 euro in metropolitan cities), to help those who live in rented houses and not penalise families who own houses where property values are higher'. Then, raising from 30 per cent to 60 per cent the remuneration of the fourth month of parental leave and the 19 per cent deduction on the cost of school books and the reduction of the cost of the redemption of university degrees'.

It has been learnt that the opposition groups have tabled 16 jointly signed amendments. Among the topics, measures for the restitution of the tax drainage; extension of the Single Authorisation to the entire national territory; extension of the previous Women's Option; increase in the National Health Fund for the recruitment of parity staff; minimum wage; suppression of Article 106 on the limitation of school autonomy; extension of the no tax area to 15.000 euro with a carry-over to 60,000 euro; elimination of the increase in the retirement age for the security sector; parity leave; 70 euro increase in the single allowance; reinstatement of Transition 4.0 measures; elimination of cuts on short substitutions; justice personnel precariousness; on the university, the increase in the Ffo (ordinary financing fund) for professors and researchers; start Tax for young people; city security financed by cutting the protocol with Albania.

In total, however, there were about 3,800 amendments from the oppositions. More than 1,000 from the Democratic Party. "We are working on this manoeuvre," said the secretary Elly Schlein, "and we are starting from the material condition of those we are listening to. Our ambition today is to build an agenda starting from listening to those who work and are poor anyway and those who are not finding work at all'.

The Five Star Movement presented more than 1,600 of them, with over 30 agendas. For leader Giuseppe Conte, the manoeuvre lacks 'an industrial vision, a plan for healthcare and a real recovery of purchasing power'.

They are followed by Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra (533 amendments), Italia Viva (354) and Azione (96).

Different positions among the trade unions. Uil has called a national demonstration in Rome on Saturday 29 November, with the aim of 'obtaining changes to the manoeuvre'. The trade union 'confirmed the positive judgement regarding the detaxation of contractual increases' while rejecting 'the extension of the flat tax for self-employment income, which creates inequality' with respect to employees and pensioners.

The Cgil will take to the streets on Friday 12 December for the general strike, while the Cisl will conclude the 'path of responsibility' with an initiative on 13 December. "We are asking not only that Parliament change the manoeuvre, but that the government reopen negotiations with the unions because this is a manoeuvre that does not have the consensus of the country and the people who need to work to live," said CGIL secretary Maurizio Landini.