New Irpef and pace fiscale, what the majority parties are aiming at

On the one hand, the priority of cutting Irpef, relaunched by Fdi and Forza Italia. On the other, the fiscal peace with the scrapping of tax files, a fixed nail in the Lega's coffin. In the background is the node of coverage, which is difficult to find for both measures. And so, under the surface, the tension in the government on the tax chapter is consuming. Giorgia Meloni has reiterated (first at the general states of accountants and then at the Confcommercio assembly) the intention to concentrate efforts on cutting Irpef (an idea that Antonio Tajani also likes), that is to reduce the tax burden, 'with particular attention to the middle class'. Matteo Salvini insists on fiscal peace and the scrapping of tax files, defined not only as 'a priority' but 'an emergency'.

The goal of Palazzo Chigi was recalled by the Deputy Minister for the Economy Maurizio Leo: a 33% cut in the tax rate for incomes up to 50-60 thousand euro. An objective 'to be made structural as soon as possible. All the other options in the field from the fiscal point of view are important, but consequent to this further effort that the government is making,' pressed FdI's economic manager Marco Osnato.

Forza Italia on taxation is aligned with Fdi. 'I am not against scrapping, but I believe that it is a priority, if we want to help the middle class, to cut Irpef: that is, to go from 35 to 33% by widening the taxable base up to 60,000 euros. This means helping the middle class,' reiterated Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani in an interview with Rtl 102.5. And again: 'Because I insist on the measure that must be structural, not occasional, because the scrapping is occasional, the Irpef cut is structural. Because reducing taxes means allowing citizens to increase consumption. If consumption increases, industrial production increases and more money enters the state coffers. This is a virtuous path that Berlusconi had always supported'. On the timing Tajani added that 'the sooner it is done, the better. So first the reduction of Irpef, then eventually the scrapping.

But Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti puts the brakes on the Irpef cut ('We still have two and a half years'). The League has for weeks been working in axis with Giorgetti to reformulate a proposal already deposited in Parliament on the scrapping of tax bills, which would cost around one billion euros. The League's federal council meeting had a focus on fiscal peace. As the party reported in a note, secretary Matteo Salvini clarified that it is not an alternative solution to other proposals by the allies, but 'complementary'. The League's objective, the leader argued, is to approve the rule by the summer in committee,' the note continued, 'and have it operational with the budget law from the beginning of 2026. Still to be defined is the scope of the operation..

 "I do what is written in the government's political programme and I try to make it possible, but all these announcements are all shareable, I share them all, but it is up to me to create the conditions so that they can be verified". These were the words of Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, on the sidelines of the presentation of the Upb's Budget Policy Report, to those who asked him whether fiscal peace and the Irpef cut could go together in the manoeuvre. Asked if he was optimistic that they could, Giorgetti replied: 'I am realistically optimistic'.