Manoeuvre 2025, from severance pay to the student bonus: all possible changes

The Budget Law 2025 is entering the thick of work in the Chamber of Deputies and, a month and a half after the Council of Ministers' launch, Parliament is aiming to retighten the text with a long series of amendment proposals. These include an additional three billion resources for the bridge over the Strait of Messina, a new six-month period of silence-consent to allocate severance pay to supplementary pensions, the cut of the second Irpef tax rate with the enlargement of the bracket up to 60,000 euro of income, the bonus for children's extracurricular courses, and the squeeze on companies receiving public contributions. In total, about 250 amendments 'super flagged' by the parties are trying to pass in the committee vote under the strict supervision of the Mef.

There is no shortage of potentially divisive topics for the majority after days of strong tensions between allies Forza Italia and Lega on the Rai Canon. Starting with the further cutting of the Irpef for the middle class that the Azzurri aim to make immediately in the manoeuvre - even if only to reduce the second rate by one point - with money from the two-year concordat. "At the disposal of the tax cut," recalls the president of the Azzurri senators Maurizio Gasparri, there are also "the 430 million found with merit by Giorgetti" and not used for the Rai canon. FdI recalls that the further cut in Irpef is a government priority. But the executive has also already taken into account a possible postponement of the measure to a possible measure following the budget law.

On Irpef, the Lega is keeping cautious, postponing the decision until it is clearer how many resources are available. The party in Via Bellerio, after all, has as its priority that of 'extending the flat tax by raising the threshold of earned income from 30 to 50,000 euro'. In the meantime, the League has just secured the EUR 3 billion for the Strait Bridge, with the green disk of the CIPESS to divert the resources of the Development and Cohesion Fund to the work. A move that paves the way for the approval of the Lega's amendment. But one that sends the opposition on a rampage.

The FdI proposal for a new six-month period of silence-consent to choose to transfer severance pay from the company to the supplementary pension fund also has a good chance of passing. An intervention on which the League is also pushing. Among other things, the premier's party is counting on the 'family dowry', a contribution of 500 euro per year for language, music or sports courses for children under 14. The green light seems to be given to the exclusion of the police force from the turnover freeze in the public administration: a change requested by the entire majority and that has already obtained the approval of the Minister of the Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti.

But the rule introducing Mef auditors in companies receiving public contributions is also set to change. "It seems a mistake, I am convinced that we will change it," says the president of Noi Moderati, Maurizio Lupi, who reads in it "regurgitations of Soviet statism". The entire majority is calling for the rule to be changed, with different proposals ranging from the abolition of auditors to raising the contribution ceiling. The Treasury is working on the solution: a government reformulation should materialise in the coming days.