Manoeuvre 2025, Giorgetti studies lower taxes for those who have children. Possible 5-6 billion intervention on the birth rate

The race for the Meloni government's third economic manoeuvre is on. The real challenge is to find the missing 10 billion or so to confirm and support the measures that are closest to the executive's heart, and Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti is hard at work. But also hanging over the obstacle course of the budget law is the sword of Damocles of the drop in industrial production.

Meanwhile, the minister began consultations with his allies. In Via XX Settembre, it was the turn of Forza Italia. A delegation met the holder of the Economy. The delegation was composed of the heads of the House and Senate groups, Paolo Barelli and Maurizio Gasparri, the head of the departments, Alessandro Cattaneo, and the head of economics of the Azzurro movement, Maurizio Casasco. The Azzurri share and appreciate the approach of the upcoming budget law," a party note then specifies, "but they place their stakes. "The cut in the tax wedge is indispensable to foster growth," reiterated secretary Antonio Tajani, who was absent with justification because he was on a mission in the Balkans, in an interview. Forza Italia is also aiming at the drop in Irpef and the other Berlusconian mantra, namely the increase in minimum pensions. The threshold of 1,000 euros per month remains the goal at the end of the legislature. But for now, the Azzurri are relying on maintaining last year's threshold at just under 700 euro.

"I have amply explained the framework of the manoeuvre" and on possible ceilings on the number of amendments "we have not spoken about it yet. There are new rules (of the pact, ed.) that make it complicated for us to do the budget. Also for amendments, because we have to respect new clauses' on the issue of expenditure. Thus Giorgetti at the end of the meeting with Lega parliamentarians, and in the presence of Matteo Salvini.

"Changing the rules of tax deductions, in our country, and, regardless of income, giving those who have more dependent children the chance to pay less tax, even at the cost of eliminating or reviewing some tax deductions for people who do not have children to increase them instead for those who do have children". This is the project that the Minister of the Economy is allegedly working on, which is reported on the front page of an article in Il Foglio, signed by the editor Claudio Cerasa, which basically hypothesises 'a family quotient for deductions, with the cost of the measure already estimated at between five and six billion euro'.

Meanwhile, from the opposition, the PD indicated the priority. "We have always had a pragmatic approach to the manoeuvre. We are concerned because we have heard that the Meloni government, also this year, wants to cash in on pensions, and we will oppose it, especially on possible cuts to the indexation of pension inflation'. This was stressed by Elly Schlein, secretary of the Democratic Party, on the sidelines of the presentation of her book in Piazza Vittorio, Rome. 'We have raised the issue of the Women's Option since the beginning of the legislature,' she continued, 'the government has made changes to criteria in a restrictive manner. They said they would work on it, but we are still like this. We are worried about healthcare. We will make our proposals, and I hope there will be convergence with the other opposition forces,' Schlein concluded.