‘Here comes the Treasury’s halt to the shield for the debts of sports clubs. The Ministry of the Economy is against the amendment to the quater aid decree which would have saved football from having to pay the suspended payments due to the covid. A difficult aid to justify at a time when the real emergency is families in difficulty, we reason in government buildings. Meanwhile, the executive is preparing to accept the avalanche – albeit limited this year – of amendments to the maneuver. With the process for the amendments underway in Parliament, the parties are in fact taking office with their wishes, from the wedge to pensions, from companies to prisons. The government is ready and closing ranks: this is what tomorrow’s meeting between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the group leaders of the majority will serve for. In the meantime, the premier is trying to ease tensions after yesterday’s clash with the Bank of Italy.
The tax burden, compared to a forecast by Nadef which estimated a ratio of 43.4% to GDP, through relief measures would drop “by more than 0.2 points to 43.2% of GDP“. Said Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti during a hearing at the joint Finance commissions of the House and Senate.
“The news for the government is that there were no substantial criticisms from Bank of Italy on the big voices of the maneuver”, says Giorgia Meloni from Tirana, who is also reassuring on the Pnrr: the important thing, she says, “is that the resources arrive on the ground “. While there is only one line on the maneuver: we are willing to think about pos (on which there is already the opening of the premier) and cash while there is no going back on the citizen’s income. While for the Women’s Option the road seems marked: in fact, work is underway to eliminate the controversial conditionality of children (the limitation to three categories of disadvantaged female workers would remain, with the raising of the age to 60), a change that should come with an amendment of the government. Meanwhile, the EU has also given the green light to the new tranche of aid for 5.7 billion destined by Italy for companies in the South: the aid can be disbursed until the end of 2023. Again for the South, as already announced by the minister of the Giorgetti economy, the extension of tax breaks and tax credits will also come with the manoeuvre.
Among the changes that the government and the majority are working on, the road to extending TV rights seems to be going downhill: sports minister Abodi is in favor of extending contracts from three to five years (but not for existing ones) related to TV rights and is talking about it with colleagues from the Economy and Justice. Finally, a squeeze against digital piracy of live sporting events is also on the way, while the hypothesis of allowing the world of sport to pay taxes and contributions expiring on December 22 by installments is not convincing via XX Settembre, also allowing for the suspension of administrative and criminal sanctions and sports. The parties are also working on the manoeuvre, which have been busy working out the amendments all day. In the wishes there is room for everything. The Democratic Party wants to focus on the clearest reduction of the wedge and on the refinancing of the Women’s Option in the version in force so far. The proposals of the M5s range from a stop to raising the ceiling on cash to a package of interventions to restore the Citizenship Income, while the Third Pole wants to finance a significant part of Industry 4.0 with the Pnrr.
The social partners also make themselves heard: from the leader of Confindustria Bonomi who asks for more on the wedge and trusts in the intervention for the South; to the unions who will return to meet the premier tomorrow. In the meantime, the general rehearsal for the assault on the diligence is taking place on the parallel track of the aid quater decree, with the vote in the commission postponed to next week. Stul Superbonus, Forza Italia insists on extending the terms (expired on November 25) until the end of the year in order to have the 110% benefitdespite the closing yesterday of the undersecretary to the presidency Fazzolari, who instead ensured the work on the release of credits. The restart of sales should be recorded on this, with the agreement between Intesa Sanpaolo and Ludoil Energy, for the transfer of credits for a tax value of 1.3 billion.
