Manoeuvre: tussle in the Commission, delay in the Chamber of Deputies. Here are the main measures

The passage of the manoeuvre in the House has been postponed. The chairman of the House Budget Committee, Giuseppe Mangialavori, announced at the end of Saturday's committee meeting that work would resume on Monday and that the session was only reopened to allow the government's amendments to be filed. Mangialavori let it be known that he would inform the House presidency of the continuation of the work. The manoeuvre was scheduled to be debated in the Chamber on Monday. But the time has now been extended.

Web tax only for large companies with revenues above 750 million, tax on capital gains from cryptocurrencies that falls to 26% in 2025 (the manoeuvre raised it to 42%), and then rises to 33% from 2026, reduced IRES for companies that reinvest 80% of profits in the company, mini-deduction for the South, the fund for incolpevole delinquency, bonus appliances: these are the main contents of the amendments that the government is preparing to file in the Budget Committee in the House, according to a draft of the measures circulating among MPs. The oppositions have asked that the government's proposed amendments not be contained in a single maxi-amendment but be unbundled by subject, to allow for a more specific examination of the measures.

A 'family dowry fund' with an allocation of EUR 30 million for 2025 to reimburse expenses for extracurricular sports or recreational activities for children between 6 and 14 years of age for families with Isee under EUR 15,000. The proposal is in a draft of a government amendment to the manoeuvre circulating among parliamentarians on the sidelines of the work of the Budget Committee in the House. The fund finances activities 'in favour of Amateur Sports Associations and Societies registered in the National Register of Amateur Sports Activities (RASD)' and 'third sector entities registered in the National Register of the Third Sector (RUNTS)'.

In order to 'maintain employment growth levels in southern Italy and contribute to the reduction of territorial disparities', the mini-decontribution to the South, i.e. a 25 per cent rebate on contributions due for workers, has arrived. This is provided for in a government amendment to the manoeuvre, according to a draft. Private employers, with the exclusion of the agricultural sector and domestic work contracts, will be granted exemption from the payment of social security contributions, with the exclusion of premiums and contributions due to INAIL, limited to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (250 workers maximum) that employ permanent workers in Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Sicily, Puglia, Calabria and Sardinia. The exemption, for the year 2025, is equal to 25 per cent of the social security contributions for a maximum amount of EUR 145 on a monthly basis for 12 months, for each open-ended worker hired on 31 December 2024. For the year 2026 and 2027 it drops to 20%.

In the final, agitated days before the House's approval expected next week, an amendment has emerged that would raise the salary of non-parliamentary ministers to that of their colleagues who also have a seat in Parliament. A treatment that would be extended to undersecretaries and deputy ministers. And still on the subject of the salaries of honourable members, the so-called anti-Renzi rule is back, but more rigid than the one initially envisaged by an FdI amendment: instead of a ceiling on the maxi remuneration of politicians received abroad, there is a ban tout court on paid posts outside the EU. "Let's keep in mind that some ministers not having the parliamentary allowance have a somewhat lower remuneration, but this is a choice that parliamentarians have made, it is made in Parliament, if in Parliament they want to increase the remuneration it is their choice, right?", said the deputy minister of the Economy, Maurizio Leo, arriving at Atreju, the FdI kermesse underway at the Circo Massimo in Rome.