• Tax wedge, deductions for 2.5 million workers. Tonight the CDM
  • Government-trade unions summit: cutting the tax wedge for incomes of up to € 40,000

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January 23, 2020 The Council of Ministers of Palazzo Chigi in the evening session has given the green light, as we learn, to the decree on the tax wedge. To push on the green disk would have been above all the ministry of Economy, with the person in charge of via XX Settembre, Roberto Gualtieri, who defined the measure. Today there was a strong acceleration on the measure: sources in Palazzo Chigi, in the early hours of the afternoon, explained that the green light would hardly have arrived, but in the evening the turning point arrived, and during the meeting of the CDM the meeting was reached. 'approval.

In a night Council of Ministers comes the decree that implements the maneuver and gives a signal to employees by extending the 80 euro bonus even to those who did not take them before. About 2.9 billion will lighten the paychecks to employees who earn up to 40 thousand euros, with a progressive system that will give up to a maximum of 600 euros, from July to December, to those who earn up to 28 thousand euros. An "experimental" measure for 2020: 5 billion are allocated for 2021 but a more comprehensive reform of the personal income tax is being studied.

Tax agency appointments
The package of appointments to the top of the tax agencies could be postponed to the next CDM. This is what is learned from government sources. The same sources point out that the agreements reached between the political forces of the majority on the nomination package in question remain unchanged. The names on which the agreement was found in recent days are those of Ernesto Maria Ruffini for the Revenue Agency, Antonio Agostini at the Customs and Monopolies and Marcello Minenna at the State Property. Although the deal appears not to be under discussion, last-minute surprises cannot be ruled out if the postponement was confirmed tonight.

Ex Ilva
And we try to "speed up as much as possible" the decree for Taranto, while a nightly summit is convened to take stock of the negotiations with Mittal on the former Ilva. In the morning, the news of the cancellation by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of his speech in front of the international audience of Davos bounces on the chats of the parliamentarians. He should have been there in the afternoon, he would also have had to meet the leaders of Arcelor Mittal to talk about the former Ilva of Taranto. Instead, he stayed in Rome to work on the Ilva dossier. After the Council of Ministers, a meeting on the Ilva dossier chaired by Prime Minister Conte could be held.