Council of Ministers

Cdm OKs competition decree, part of motorway tolls to the State. Salvini: definitive stop to the redditometer

The Council of Ministers approves the competition bill with the introduction of new regulations on motorway concessions and the overcoming of the income meter

by Redaction Rome

26 July 2024

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The risk of disputes with Brussels
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Competition law among the targets for the seventh instalment of the Pnrr
Other contents of the measure

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Green light from the Council of Ministers to the Competition Decree, which also contains the issue of motorway concessions. This was announced by the Ministry of Economic Development. For the first time, the note specifies, part of the tolls will not go into the coffers of large concessionary groups - including international ones - but to the State. The objective - explained Vice-Premier and Minister Matteo Salvini - is to carry out public works and keep tolls under control.

Ok to tax correction on concordat and substitute flat tax

The Council of Ministers has also definitively approved the corrective decree on tax deadlines and the two-year Preventive Agreement. This was announced by Deputy Minister of the Economy Maurizio Leo in a note. In particular, he explains, there is a 'redefinition of the deadlines for submitting declarations, moving the deadline for sending income tax and IRAP declarations to 31 October', and on the two-year arrangement with creditors 'a substitute tax (flat tax) is introduced on the higher income agreed with rates varying from 10 to 15 per cent in relation to the Isa score'.

Salvini: ok cdm overcoming redditometro, thanks to the League

"A great victory thanks to the League: stop Big Brother Tax! Approved in the Council of Ministers is the definitive elimination of the redditometer, an intrusive tool of a taxman who is the enemy of citizens and workers, which, as of today, will finally be a thing of the past'. This was announced on X by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini. "More guarantees for citizens and an end to Big Brother Tax! Let the respectable Italians work, ensuring that those who are identified and punished - without discounts - are those who have never declared anything. A common sense measure, good!"

Appeal against Austria on the Brenner Pass resolved

The Council of Ministers then approved a resolution, on the instructions of Minister Matteo Salvini, 'mandating the lawyers to file an appeal against Vienna's unilateral bans at the Brenner Pass'. This was announced by MIT, reporting that Salvini expressed 'great satisfaction' for an initiative aimed at 'closing with Austrian arrogance and restoring legal certainty to European hauliers'.

The risk of disputes with Brussels

On the motorways, the request by the technicians of the Minister for European Affairs, Raffaele Fitto , during Monday's pre-council meeting, to deepen these aspects with the EU had halted the path of the bill, not without controversy. The European Commission is said to have expressed resistance to the hypothesis of creating a single motorway tariff and a public fund to collect the tolls and then distribute them. A mechanism that could have weighed on public accounts.

The confrontation table demanded by the dealers

Studying possible solutions, Salvini also received representatives of motorway concessionaires at the ministry. In a letter - anticipated by the Messaggero - their association, Aiscat, complains of 'exceptional' circumstances, with the increase in management costs due to the tightening of safety after the collapse of the Morandi bridge and the blockage of tolls, which have risen by an average of 0.85% per year over the last three years, much less than inflation. The companies have called for a round table and proposed solutions, starting with a technical extension of the duration of the concessions.

Competition law among the targets for the seventh instalment of the NRP

The timing for the bill is tight, because the annual law on competition is one of the 69 objectives to be achieved by the end of the year in order to obtain the seventh instalment of the NRP, which is worth over 18 billion euro. And the law, according to the plan, must include measures on motorways, in particular by stopping the automatic renewals of concessions.

The other contents of the measure

Other highlights of the measure are the portability of data from car black boxes for insurance companies, the regulation of outdoor tables in bars and restaurants, and changes to the penalty regime for chauffeur-driven car hire (NCC) with more proportionality. There are also transparency obligations for manufacturers to avoid shrinkflation, i.e. the reduction of product quantities in packages at the same price.