Rome, 12 November – “As we feared, the Council of Ministers has reopened the terms for joining the two-year preventive agreement: the Government’s tax policy is a real festival for tax evaders. He did so the day after the meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the unions on the budget maneuver. It is yet another confirmation of the Government’s total deafness to the union’s requests.” This was stated by the confederal secretary of the CGIL Christian Ferrari.
“But, above all – continues the union leader – it is yet another slap in the face to workers, pensioners and pensioners, who, as we recalled yesterday, will pay, in 2024, around 17 billion more in Irpef, while for the sectors with a 70% tax gap continue to prepare every possible and imaginable tool to allow them to continue to evade taxes”.
“We continue on this path – adds Ferrari – despite the flop of the measure in question, which produced revenue for the State that was far lower than expected. The reason why this happens is rather simple: only those who have absolute certainty that in the next two years they will collect amounts much higher than those on which they will have to pay the very low tax provided for by this measure join the preventive composition agreement. Everyone else prefers to wait, having the certainty that new amnesties will arrive promptly and that, in the meantime, no one will carry out checks”.
For the confederal secretary: “Anything other than the records in the fight against tax evasion claimed by the Prime Minister: much less is collected today than it would be collected tomorrow, and in the meantime 13 billion euros are being cut per year, for the next seven years, to education, to public and universal welfare, to Regions and local authorities, to industrial policies, and the National Health Service is defunded”.
“The one who pays will always be those who live on a fixed income, who will have to guarantee the services that will disappear with their own money. In 2023, citizens paid 46 billion euros in private healthcare spending alone. Those who can afford it, those who don’t have the possibility, even give up treatment. These – concludes Ferrari – are the very concrete effects of the Government’s political line”.
