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Superbonus, here is the amendment: spreads, controls, banks, renovation bonus. All the novelties

The obligation to spread the Superbonus credits over 10 years will therefore only concern expenditure incurred in 2024. A 'limited' retroactivity, as the government tried to reassure after the alarm raised by banks, businesses and builders in the face of the new squeeze to limit the impact of the superbonus avalanche on public accounts, starting with debt. The blue deputy prime minister was 'perplexed' about the credit spread. The minister's reply: 'I defend Italy's interests'.

by Giuseppe Latour and Giovanni Parente

Superbonus, Tajani: "Emendamento rispetti civiltà giuridica, Giorgetti se ne faccia una ragione"

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The government's amendment to the Superbonus Decree has been stamped out. The six-page text also contains the rule that for Superbonus-related expenses incurred in the year 2024 the deduction will be divided 'in ten equal annual instalments'. The novelty, therefore, will be retroactive and will also apply to the seismbonus. For banks, from 2025, there will be a stop to the offsetting of instalments linked to all tax credits with social security debts. Municipal controls on tax rebates start and the cut of the renovation bonus from 50 per cent to 30 per cent from 2028.

Superbonus, ten-year instalments for 12 billion deductions

The deductibility over ten years of the expenses for interventions with the Superbonus concerns an amount of usable deductions equal to almost 12 billion between 2024 and 2025. This emerges from the technical report to the government amendment to the superbonus decree that arrived in the night, introducing the measure. "For the purposes of the estimate, the amount of usable deductions for the year 2024 amounting to approximately EUR 6,211 million and for the year 2025 amounting to approximately EUR 5,780 million, discounted in the budget forecasts, were considered," it reads. The novelty also applies to seismbonus expenses, normally spread over five years, and to those related to the architectural barriers bonus.

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The rule, however, states that the allocation of tax credits will no longer follow the allocation of deductions. The division into four annual instalments for the superbonus and five annual instalments for the seismbonus will continue.

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From 2025, stop offsetting contributions for banks and insurance companies

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For banks, it will no longer be possible from 2025 to offset superbonus credits against social security debts. The rule, which also applies to financial institutions, does not affect natural persons. Violation of this rule results in the recovery of the unduly offset credit and the associated interest, as well as the application of a penalty.

The anti-usury standard

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Here comes the anti-usury rule. Banks, insurance companies and brokers who have purchased credits at a rate of less than 75 per cent (usually the superbonus has been sold at rates of around 85 per cent) from the year 2025 onwards will have to apply to these instalments the apportionment into 6 equal annual instalments: the credit instalments resulting from the new apportionment cannot be sold to other parties, or further apportioned. The rule applies, however, only to credits with an identification code, i.e. generated from May 2022 onwards.

Non-repayable grants arrive

Two funds are also established. One of 35 million for 2025 for redevelopment in the areas affected by the reconstruction in the territories hit by the earthquake; the other of 100 million for 2025 for energy and structural redevelopment carried out by third sector entities, non-profit organisations, voluntary organisations and associations for social promotion. The model of non-repayable contributions is the one that Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti had repeatedly referred to during the hearings on the decree.

Stop the assignment of residual instalments

Remaining instalments of credits for which at least one instalment has been utilised can no longer be assigned. In essence, those who have started deducting will no longer be able to assign what remains of their tax credits.

Municipal controls

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The municipalities' checks, carried out as part of their normal control activities on abuses, will be extended to all concessions, not just the superbonus. When the administration detects the total or partial non-existence of the interventions declared for the concessions, it will report it to the offices of the Guardia di Finanza and the Revenue Agency. A percentage of 50 per cent of the amount collected is paid to the municipalities.

Restructuring bonus

Important news comes on the 50 per cent renovation bonus, the ordinary bonus used for the renovation of buildings. As of 2028 it will be cut to 30 per cent, whereas it is currently at 50 per cent. This suggests that the already planned cut to 36 per cent will be confirmed next year, without the usual increase to 50 per cent.

Plastic and sugar tax

An extension and an amendment appear. The plastic tax slips from 1 July 2024 to 1 July 2026. The sugar tax is, on the other hand, cut for finished products to the extent of EUR 5.00 per hectolitre and, as from 1 July 2026, to the extent of EUR 10.00 per hectolitre; for products prepared for use after dilution, to the extent of EUR 0.13 per kilogram and, as from 1 July 2026, to the extent of EUR 0.25 per kilogram.

The calendar

There will be time for parliamentary sub-amendments to these changes until Monday, 13 May, at 6 p.m., while the text will go to the House on Wednesday. The Finance Committee vote is, however, expected on Tuesday.

Confindustria's no

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On the retroactivity of the superbonus, Confindustria also took sides. "We well understand the government's difficulties in preventing the tailing off of superbonus credits from jeopardising the programmatic deficit of this 2024. However, in the name of legal certainty we do not agree with its possible retroactivity,' warned Confindustria vice-president Maurizio Marchesini. The government can arrange the credit-spreading by decree-law with immediate effect, "but then apply it only for credits accrued from expenses incurred after that date," added the number two of Viale dell'Astronomia, who called for a round table.

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