Hunt for funds for manoeuvre, negotiations with banks

Mouths are sealed in the majority but, with notebooks closed, there is more than one person ready to swear that the agreement on the new contribution of the banks and insurance companies to the manoeuvre is practically done. According to some, it would not be a further increase of the IRAP rate from 2 to 2.5 per cent, but an intervention mechanism through cash advances on the model of last year. But that of a very small adjustment of the tax would also remain in place, but certainly not up to the half-point initially hypothesised.

The Treasury, at the moment, is not commenting while the banks are waiting to see black on any proposals before getting involved. The agreement, which would have been the subject of meetings at the Mef, however, is crucial to find new resources that should amount to 200-250 million and to unblock, therefore, the game of coverage for the changes that the parties, starting with those of the majority, continue to ask for. And it is from there that all the reasoning that the government is preparing to do in the bilateral meetings that the Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani will begin today with the individual parliamentary groups on the amendments can also start.

Among the certain changes, meanwhile, is the one on short-term rentals, with Forza Italia confirming that the rate will be confirmed at 21% for the first house, it will be 26% on the second, and from the third it will be triggered by entrepreneurial activity. On this point there will however be - explains Maurizio Gasparri - a government amendment. In the same way, there will be an executive amendment proposal - Minister Adolfo Urso announced - with which 'we will immediately make the new Transition 5.0 active from 1 January next year'. At the Mef, in the meantime, simulations and estimates are continuing on the actual resources that a series of measures, from the parcel tax to the increase in the Rc auto to gold. This will be the starting point to also discuss the common topics between majority and opposition that will be dealt with on a separate track: local authorities, catastrophes and Aire, as well as the treasury for parliamentary amendments.

On the local authorities front, news could arrive on the tourist tax, which was increased by the manoeuvre but whose proceeds should ultimately remain all in the hands of the municipalities and no longer partly in the hands of the State. Still on the local authorities front, there is a quarrel between the majority and the opposition over the issue of essential levels of services. In the Budget law, in fact, the LEP were included with a series of regulations contested by the opposition. "With these articles," accuses the president of the PD senators Francesco Boccia, "in order to make a gift to the League, there is a surreptitious attempt to circumvent the ruling of the Constitutional Court. "Evoking the Constitution to block Autonomy,' replied the president of the League's senators Massimiliano Romeo, 'is specious. In the meantime, the Mef communicated the data on requirements. In November, the balance of the state sector provisionally closed with a requirement of EUR 6.9 billion, compared to EUR 5.166 billion in November 2024.