From Isee to 'richer' salaries, the parties' assault on the manoeuvre begins

After the words of the Minister for the Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, yesterday 23 August at the Rimini Meeting, the manoeuvre building site officially opened. And the majority parties all started to put up their flags.

Beginning to raise the bar (then we will still have to deal with the coverage, which still has to be found) was Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini: 'There is an issue we are working on with Giorgetti,' he said, 'many bonuses do not reach the middle classes because there is the Isee calculation method and if you don't have a low enough Isee you don't get a bonus. They calculate the Isee and if you have property you are rich and you are eliminated. In my opinion this is madness. At least the first house should be removed from the calculation. And then we need fiscal peace to close the millions of open disputes between Italians, revenue agencies and the Italian tax authorities.

For the League it is also necessary to raise the flat tax ceiling and index the pension increase. In recent days, the undersecretary for labour, Claudio Durigon, has also insisted on the subject of pensions (here work is to be done to stop the raising of the age, to review the forms of early exit, and to strengthen the complementary social security) and on support for contract renewals, foreseeing incentive/deduction mechanisms.

For the Leghist undersecretary on social security, the so-called Giorgetti bonus is also 'fundamental', a measure that strengthens the freedom of the worker, whether it is to stay in his job or to be able to retire earlier.

For its part, Fi, with the other deputy prime minister, Antonio Tajani, is pushing to continue to reduce the Irpef: 'First of all, the manoeuvre must lead to the reduction of the Irpef from 35 to 33% for incomes up to 60 thousand euro. Then it is true that we have had extraordinary results on employment, but now we have to make wages richer,' the Azzurro leader urged. With the manoeuvre, added Fdi's economic manager and chairman of the House Finance Committee, Marco Osnato, in an interview with IlSussidiario.net ahead of the Rimini Meeting, "we have the opportunity to make a further effort by targeting those identified as the middle class. The objective is to reduce the tax rate from 36 per cent to 33 per cent for incomes up to 60,000 euro, I believe this is a feasible goal'.