From next year it will be possible to reduce taxes: Imu, Irap and Irpef. Word of Mario Monti. Interviewed today on the Omnibus broadcast on La7, the outgoing Premier announced a tax plan that promises to be the cornerstone of his electoral campaign: "Our proposal will come out - he said - and it will be consistent with our commitments in Europe".
First, the Professor intends "block current public spending net of interest: the State will not spend one euro more than in 2012. It means -4,5% over the five years. It is a credible goal, they are not promises but serious commitments”.
In this way, the resources to cut taxes will be obtained: “IMU reduced since 2013 – Monti explained again -, increasing the deduction on the first home from 200 to 400 euros and doubling the deductions for dependent children and the elderly alone from 100 to 200 euros. The cost is 2,5 billion”.
As for theIRAP, the outgoing Prime Minister promises that it will be “reduced and favorable to work from 2014: the total wages removed from the tax base. The total Irap reduction at the end of the term will be equal to a halving of the current tax burden on the private sector. There are 11,5 billion less tax in five years on businesses, with priority given to SMEs”.
Finally, again since 2014, “less Personal income tax: we want to significantly reduce it starting from medium-low incomes, with an increase in deductions for family members and a decrease in rates starting from the lowest ones. Overall, in the legislature it is minus 15 and a half billion, corresponding to a reduction in the ratio between revenue and GDP of 2%”.
As for the possibility of a new maneuver, Monti said he "excluded" it, specifying however that it will depend on the outcome of the vote. The Professor then launched the idea of a grand coalition for reforms: “Strict majorities are not enough – he said -. If there were a grand coalition on some reform issues, I don't know if it would taste like the old politics, but the politics needed today. I certainly feel like excluding that I am a fig leaf on traditional and traditionally ineffective policies: one can very well be in Parliament and not participate in a majority ”.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani, interviewed by the French newspaper "Les Echos", said that "the forces in the center have the ambition to represent a point of balance, but in the Italian situation I don't think they will play a decisive role". In any case, after the elections “we are ready to discuss with Monti. I am convinced that whoever collects the majority of the popular vote will be in a position to govern both in the House and in the Senate. But even if we have a majority, given the situation in the country, the centre-left will not be sectarian and I undertake to discuss with the pro-European, non-populist and constitutional forces. Our opponents are Berlusconi, the Northern League, Beppe Grillo and all forms of anti-European populism. On the Government – added the leader of the Democratic Party, we are ready to discuss with Mario Monti. It will be up to him to decide. I don't want the centre-left to appear as a sectarian force".
And just as Bersani opens in Monti, the Professor extends his hand to a Pdl without the Knight: “I believe that our program meets many needs for the injection of liberal things which I believe are a frustrated desire of Berlusconi's electors for now – underlined the Premier -. With this type of people I would gladly deal. As long as he doesn't have a personal, ideological, behavioral block on top, like the current president Silvio Berlusconi is”.
