The League wants to widen the scrapheap. And puts the survivor pensions of civil unions in its sights

The majority parties are at work, ahead of the Friday 14 November deadline, to finalise amendments to the manoeuvre. Only a small part (and with guaranteed coverage) of the amendments may become reality. The most important deadline remains Tuesday 18 November with the skimming of the reported amendments. The government has repeatedly made it clear that the margins are small, absorbed by the objective of achieving the closure of the infringement procedure one year early. Therefore, the proposals will have to be zero balance. From scrapping to increasing taxation on company dividends, the majority parties' demands are many

The League aims to extend the collection quinquies envisaged by the budget law (the current rule excludes files issued following an assessment) by including taxpayers who have received an ongoing assessment, for example for formal defects. A request, that of enlarging the tax amnesty, which 'with unchanged balances, while maintaining the budget balance', according to the Mef Federico Freni, the Lega Nord undersecretary, is 'shared by the majority'.

However, some amendments that the Lega Negro, one of the manoeuvre's rapporteurs, Claudio Borghi, has already announced are bound to make noise. For example, 'sell the Mes and with this get 15 billion to lower taxes. We have Mes shares that the EU says are worth 15 billion. We don't want to use it. We can sell them to other European countries'.

In the draft budget bill, the coupon remains at 21% only for those who rent a single unit directly, while it risesto 26% for leases managed through intermediaries or portals. The measure, however, displeases Forza Italia, which has always been against any tax increase, but the League also aims at eliminating the measure, which has a modest revenue, 100 million, easily compensated. The tax on short-term rentals 'I am sure we will cancel it or at least change it decisively. If two out of three parties have said they do not agree, it is difficult for it to pass,' Borghi said.

Among the League's proposals there is also a flat tax at 5% for young people up to 30 years of age hired on a permanent basis and a three-year decontribution for the company that hires. The proposal is that the incentive can be extended up to the age of 36 in the case of a brain return, i.e. for young people returning to Italy from abroad.