Growth, work, taxation: we start again. In the first cabinet after the summer break, the Government discussed the new measures to be implemented in the last months of the legislature.
The agriculture minister Corrado Passera has already ready a second package for development, which will contain various measures: from airport plan to that for city (two billion to redevelop degraded urban areas), from the creation of thedigital agenda measures for businesses (in particular the start-ups), passing through the creation of new infrastructures (yesterday the Deputy Minister Mario Ciaccia announced the reduction of VAT on new works otherwise unsustainable). The economic development technicians are also preparing a new energy plan (expected by the end of the year) and a measure to concentrate the over 600 local public transport company present in Italy.
For his part, the minister Elsa Fornero he told Radio Anch'io that he intends to “ask the Government to lower taxes on labour, with equal revenue. This is the aspiration of the ministry, after the reform of the labor market. I take responsibility for it."
As for the "young plan” in the pipeline, Fornero explained that it will not contain “glaring measures”, but rather “targeted, territorial, minute interventions, microeconomic measures and not an excessive amount of resources, but which must be spent well”.
However, the most thorny and urgent issue that the CDM will have to face is another: the taxation of citizens affected by the earthquake in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna. Payments, suspended after the tragedy, should resume on 31,6 October, but the governors of the three regions (which together produce XNUMX% of the national GDP) are putting pressure on the government to obtain an extension of the exemption.
The hypothesis being studied by the Executive is of selectively prolong the tax stop: not for the benefit of all citizens, but only for those actually damaged by the earthquake. Basically, people who have seen their homes collapse and entrepreneurs whose company is not yet able to resume production.
The commissioner for reconstruction, Vasco Errani, has put forward "a serious, fair and simple proposal: postponement for all citizens until November, after those with destroyed homes and businesses that do not postpone until June 2013".
