Neither flat tax neither early retirement: the rejection of the Confindustria, expressed in the words of its president Carlo Bonomi, it could not have been. “We cannot afford imaginative flat taxes or even new early retirement tools. Follies cannot be admitted to avoid the uncontrolled growth of debt and deficit”, said the number one of the Italian industrialists in no uncertain terms.
Flat tax: the wrath of the league for the rejection of Confindustria
The intervention of the president of Confindustria, on the eve of the formation of the new one Government is a very clear political message and sounds like a dry and unequivocal pick at the crazy promises, both tax and social security, launched by the increasingly contested leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, in the election campaign. The wrath of the Northern League closest to Salvini – from Alberto Bagnai to Claudio Borghi – is strong: “No madness, the citizens – they reply to Bonomi – have elected us for this. Not paying the flat tax and keeping Fornero? No thanks."
Flat tax: there will be no flat tax in the new government programme
Of a completely different sign are the moods that circulate in Brothers of Italy who, even during the electoral campaign, never fully embraced the flat tax, indulging in the prudence by Giorgia Meloni. And the broadsides of Confindustria really benefit her, both because the candidate for prime minister has some more reason to curb the ministerial requests of Salvini and his associates and because Meloni will have a good game at exclude the flat tax from the program of the new Government.
After all, the ideas of the tax expert of Fratelli d'Italia, Maurizio Leo, are of a very different nature than those of the League, as he has recently had the opportunity to explain. At most, FdI thinks of a very soft flat tax on the incremental income and raising the flat tax for self-employed workers to 100 euros from the current 65 euros.
“There will be no more in the first budget law” they say from Meloni's party. And she will have to deal with it too Forza Italy which he supported in the electoral campaign, with Silvio himself Berlusconi, Salvini's fiscal follies, albeit with a little more prudence.
