In the end, the measure that the Council of Ministers is preparing to launch on Monday 16 October could reach 24 or even 25 billion euros. The meeting is convened at Palazzo Chigi at 9.30 am, but the game still seems to be open on some issues, starting with the pension issue on which Forza Italia continues to insist in order to bring home an increase in minimum allowances. Around 23 billion are given as certain, of which 15 for the cut in the tax wedge, extended through 2024, and for the Irpef remodulation with the merging of the first two brackets into a single rate set at 23%. An allocation of 3 billion should be allocated to healthcare while 5 billion goes to the renewal of public administration contracts, together with a series of measures for the family and birth rate. However, it is a figure that seems destined to rise. The maneuver «will be around 23-24 billion and will have as its main objective to help those in difficulty. We will confirm the cut in the tax wedge for the whole of 2024″ and “we will do everything for doctors and nurses with the renewal of the contract and to exempt those who can help us cut the waiting lists”, explains the deputy prime minister Antonio Tajani, saying he is sure that the Budget law «will also bring some increase in pensions, above all there will be some revaluation of the minimum ones».
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had called for a maneuver focused «on the fight against inflation, on the need to help families and businesses. We focus on the serious and important things, which are businesses, jobs, incomes and families. There are no resources to squander and money to throw away on meaningless things.” The Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, reiterates that “the budget law is made of seriousness and an approach that allows us to sow the Italy of tomorrow today”. The meaning is that “we have put in place everything we could, as far as resources are concerned, in such a difficult moment also at an international level, which convinces us that we need to be prudent and responsible”, adds the Minister of Business and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso, observing that «Italy is moving forward better than other European countries». The opposition, however, remains on the attack. «It is true that the blanket is short, but it is equally true that the Meloni government wanted to shorten the blanket, which instead of discussing how we combat tax evasion, discussed 14 amnesties and they were arguing over the 15th, because they work thus, for corporate tips that do not produce greater fiscal fairness”, accuses the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein, while the secretary of Più Europa Riccardo Magi speaks of a “depressive and depressing” maneuver: not only does it have nothing for growth, productivity and competition but it increases public debt by passing it on to future generations. A boulder on the future of our young people.”
