The new spending reviews put your sights on transfers at Railways, subsidies toroad transport and waste of the local public transport. The cuts will be included in the Economic and Financial Document (Def) that the Government will present on April 10 and their goal is to guarantee savings for 10 billion euros. These resources will be used to avoid the tax increase foreseen by the safeguard clauses weighing on the 2016 accounts.
According to the numbers of the General Accounting Office, 27,7% of transfers to businesses, equal to 4,7 billion euros, are destined for infrastructure, especially railways, while 24,5% concern the transport sector, which receives 4,1. 1,9 billion, of which XNUMX go to road haulage and the same amount to railway obligations in the railway sector.
In all, between investments and operating expenses, the Railways they cost 7-8 billion a year: a high sum, but which could be difficult to reduce, especially since the public company is being privatised.
'Sroad transport, on the other hand, the latest Stability law has allocated 250 million euros, also providing for the reimbursement of excise duties on diesel for motor vehicles, given that their 15% reduction has been postponed from 2015 to 2019.
As for the TPL, not only cuts in subsidies will come, but also a work of overall rationalization, to try to reduce the overlapping of services.
