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November 03, 2019 It does not seem at all obvious that the new tax on plastic packaging will really enter into the budget maneuver of 2020. The same fate for the squeeze on company cars. For days, Matteo Renzi has expressed an increasing opposition to these new taxes. Yesterday he went so far as to question the role of the President of the Conte Council and was much contested from within the PD and from the other allies of government for the ways, the times and the same theme that he raised. The taxes on which the majority parties quarrel are worth about 1.7 billion on the 30 of the maneuver, but the political cost of this choice could be much higher and put at risk the very holding of the majority.

Bonaccini: for us it is suicide
The Governor and candidate for the Emilia Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, said more or less the same things as Renzi but no voices rose to contradict him. The data is indisputable: Emilia is the main packaging district in Italy. A tax on plastics is directly and heavily affected by Emilia just a few days before the elections. If there was any remaining hope of winning on January 26th, says Bonaccini, a plastic tax or the company car issue immediately turns it off.

"The company car issue, managed as badly as it could and here where we grow more than all and with unemployment at 5%, risks making us pay a high price. I am bombarded by our voters not by others. Even plastic tax if it does not put some we pay corrections and incentives here, not elsewhere ". This is what Bonaccini wrote in a letter sent to the elected representatives in Emilia Romagna. "I do not agree with the provision on company cars for how it was set up and I am sure, as Minister Gualtieri and Misiani assured me, in addition to Zingaretti himself, who will be decidedly modified or even canceled," continued the candidate who indicates also a way out. On plastic, Bonaccini writes: "in Emilia Romagna the future" free plastic "regional plan we are sharing with industry companies, studying compensation and incentive mechanisms, which do not damage the sector, for an absolutely necessary ecological turn, but that it must not affect businesses and work ".

Word of parliament and amendments
Tomorrow the budget maneuver of 2020 will arrive in Parliament, where the majority announces a flood of amendments on the new taxes. This climate of conflict is not good for the government or the economy, continues the Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri, who invites everyone to calm, to find a somewhat more orderly picture of the debate, but also consistency. And prepare for mediation to overcome an impasse. The hypothesis is a postponement, perhaps to the next year, of the much discussed taxes.

For company cars it could be simpler: all the majority parties have already said they are willing to revise the norm, even those who proposed it: "I have placed the issue of harmful environmental subsidies, but the norm on company cars does not I've never thought so and I would never have written it like that, says Laura Castelli, the pentastellata, but the question regarding the Plastic tax is different: "it must not be questioned, it is an important step to start the Green New Deal", the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Federico D'Inca, writes on Twitter, going back to what was also said by the Minister stunned to the Education, Lorenzo Fioramonti. Now the numbers in the Chamber will give a new imprint to the maneuver. converted into law by December 31, twenty-six days before the elections in Emilia Romagna.