Government

Taxes and third term, clash in the majority

Tajani's lunge: 'The encrustations of potentates risk being harmful to citizens'. For the League, the priority is 'a just, long-awaited and definitive fiscal peace'.

by Rome Editorial Staff

10 June 2025

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Key points

Tajani: Fi opposed, no to encrustation of power
"Priority to Irpef cut, then scrapping"
Salvini: for the League, fiscal peace is priority and emergency
Meloni: fair tax cut, now focus on middle class
Giorgetti: government still has two and a half years for IRPEF cut

3' min read

A centre-right summit on the third term failed to resolve the disputes within the coalition. Forza Italia reiterated its opposition, the League remains in favour while Fratelli d'Italia confirmed its willingness to discuss the matter. And so the delegation of the decision passes into the hands of leaders Giorgia Meloni, Antonio Tajani, Matteo Salvini and Maurizio Lupi.

Tajani: Fi opposed, no to encrustation of power

"We are against" the third mandate "and it is a position we have always had: we are always ready to listen to everyone" but "the third mandate then you have to do it also for mayors and it becomes too complicated, you cannot do it on the eve of the vote but we are against the very principle". This was said by Antonio Tajani, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies. 'I am always ready for dialogue,' he specified, 'to listen to the reasons but the others must listen to ours. The incrustations of potentates risk being harmful to citizens'.

"Priority to Irpef cut, then scrapping"

Stirring the waters in the last few hours is also the tax knot. On the issue around the manoeuvre, as the leader of the Azzurro clearly explained, 'the priority for us is the Irpef cut, then the scrapping. But the priority is the Irpef cut, widening the base to 60 thousand euro per year. There is also the withdrawal of the Sugar tax'.

Salvini: for the League, fiscal peace is a priority and an emergency

For the League and the government, 'a fair, long-awaited and definitive fiscal peace, a scrapping of millions of tax bills that are blocking the country's economy, are a priority, indeed an emergency'. Thus the League secretary and deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini in a note.

Meloni: fair tax cut, now focus on middle class

The government's goal is to "cut taxes in a fair and sustainable manner", and after the reform of the Irpef rates "our work is not over: we intend to do more and focus today on the middle class, which is the backbone of the Italian production system. We want to work to make the system fairer'. This was said by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaking at the General States of Accountants 2025.

"We have started the reform of Irpef with the reduction of the rates from four to three, with an intervention that has a tangible direct effect on the pockets of workers and pensioners, but,' Meloni pointed out, 'our work is not over: we intend to do more, we intend to focus today on the middle class that, as we all know, represents the backbone of the Italian production system, and is often the one that feels the brunt of the tax burden. We want to work to make the system fairer, more incentivising for those who produce income and contribute to the nation's development'.

"We want to reward merit, support work, and give certainty to young people, families, and businesses because," the premier added, "a lighter and simpler taxation system is the necessary condition to attract investment, to make the real economy grow, and to help our young people have better and more competitive market conditions compared to other European countries.

Giorgetti: government still has two and a half years to cut Irpef

"There are still two and a half years to go," said Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, on the sidelines of the General States of Accountants, responding to a question on the words of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who stressed this morning that the work on cutting taxes is not finished. Contrary to what was initially planned in the programme, the minister left La Nuvola in EUR without addressing the States General