From trump card, the solidarity contribution is turning into the most anguished nightmare of the PDL. The Knight and his loyalists would like to cancel it, or at least soften it, not only because it's bad for the polls, but also because it could prove to be less useful than expected. Yesterday the technicians of the Senate they called the measure “at risk of circumvention”. Not only. The revenue estimates were calculated on data from 2008 and not from 2009, a detail that could hold some nasty surprises when summarizing the actual takings.
To ward off the ghosts, among the ranks of the majority they dusted off an old workhorse: the tax amnesty. The proposal is from the PDL Antonio Mazzocchi and Amedeo Laboccetta. It would be a matter of forgiving the tax evaders who stole money from the state between 2006 and 2009. A generalized amnesty that would extend as far as possible: from Irpef to Irap, up to VAT (Europe permitting).
The intervention could guarantee the State coffers 35 billion euros, at least according to the estimates of the two majority MPs. But Laboccetta and Mazzocchi are not going to pass us off as friends of fraudsters, which is why they would like a tightening of the measures against tax evaders to be launched together with the super-amnesty: lowering of the threshold of punishment (from 100 to 50 thousand for incomplete declarations, from 77 to 20 thousand for those omitted entirely) and harsher prison terms (with sentences ranging from 2 to 5 years instead of 1 to 3).
If the project is realized, the supertax would be forgotten. But if something goes wrong and you have to limit yourself to a reduction in the Irpef surtax, the Pdl already has a plan b ready. The author of the new gimmick is Massimo Corsaro, vice president of Berlusconi's deputies, who proposes raising the levy threshold from 90 to 100 thousand euros of annual income (but it is not excluded that it could reach 150 thousand). A change that in any case would not exclude the family quotient calibrated ad hoc by the technicians of the undersecretary Carlo Giovanardi. If only for the weight of the corrective in relations with the UDC.
