The spoil system of the Lega-Cinque Stelle government changes the face of the tax authorities, customs and state property. All the men previously appointed by the Democratic Party are gone. In view of the next amnesty, which will see the light with the new budget manoeuvre, a general of the Guardia di Finanza assumes the leadership of theInland Revenue: It is Antoninus Major, former head of the regional command of the Fiamme Gialle del Veneto, who takes the place of Ernesto Maria Ruffini, managing director of Equitalia in June 2015 and then from July 2017 director of the Revenue Agency-Collection, the entity that replaced Equitalia.
The announcement came via Facebook from the pentastellato vice premier, Luigi Di Maio:
Changes also at the top of theCustoms agency and Demanio Agency. “Where there was respectively a former mayor of the Democratic Party and a former parliamentarian of the Democratic Party, now there are Benedict Mineo e Richard Carpino“, Di Maio always said, explaining that the two “will administer the two agencies not as a political ATM, but will have a role, for example, in the fight against gambling”.
Mineo is a manager of the Collection Agency while Carpino is a prefect who was also extraordinary commissioner of the Province of Rome from 2013 to 2014, as well as collaborator of the current Minister of Economy, Giovanni Tria.
Meanwhile, a second government summit on the next one was also held at Palazzo Chigi yesterday Budget law, the last one before the summer break. The number one problem is, as always, that of hedging, given that the manoeuvre, net of all the measures envisaged by the yellow-green contract, it already costs 22 billion euros.
Tria had proposed to let the VAT increase take effect from 2019, at least on a selected basket of products. However, the two deputy prime ministers, Di Maio and Salvini, have ruled out this hypothesis. The choice was thus postponed to September. So far, the only certainty is that the two majority shareholders of the government do not intend to give up their flagship measures.
On the one hand, the Northern League's flat tax, on the other, "the citizen's income", which is "proceeding at full speed", says Di Maio. However, the grillino minister is more cautious on the anti-Fornero pension reform: “Will it be in the maneuver? I hope so."
