Cdm approves the Maneuver. Draghi: "Expansive law accompanying growth will be well over 6%"

• Budget bill: unions strongly dissatisfied with the meeting with Draghi

• Draft budget document: the framework of the 23.4 billion maneuver

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October 28, 2021

"I want to thank Ministers Franco and Orlando, a truly remarkable job has been done and we are very satisfied. At the end of the CDM there was applause, there was sharing for the work done". Thus Prime Minister Mario Draghi in a press conference at Palazzo Chigi at the end of the Council of Ministers which gave the green light to the budget law. "I am particularly close to the families of the three victims", underlined Draghi, speaking of the victims of bad weather in Sicily and expressing "closeness to the populations affected by the storms". So, the illustration of the measures approved today.

The Council of Ministers has given the green light to the text of the budget law.

This is learned from government sources, according to which ministers accompanied the approval with applause.

Around 7.30 pm the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, will hold a press conference together with the Minister of Economy, Daniele Franco, to present the approved measures.

Expansive maneuver, stimulates growth

"This is an expansive law, which accompanies the recovery and is fully consistent with the other documents that guide the economic action of this government. It acts both on demand but also a lot on supply: let's cut taxes , we stimulate investments "explains the premier.

Growth is a compass, it will be well over 6%

"The problem of public debt, that of inadequate social benefits and other just changes to our social system that we have not been able to make in the past years can be overcome through growth: the country will grow well over 6% and this is a compass and the strategy of this government "adds Draghi.

Maintain growth and now focus on quality

"We must maintain this growth also in the years to come, these quarters have been remarkable and the fourth promises to be positive. More and more attention is being paid to the quality of this growth and this is a novelty, it is a change in the thinking of those who do economics in Europe "underlines the premier.

We put 12 billion to reduce the tax

burden "On taxes we put 12 billion to reduce the tax burden and not eight as they say. 8 billion go to a targeted intervention to reduce taxes on companies, on people, on the tax wedge and there are various hypotheses of use of these 8 billion that we will define with the Parliament "explains the premier.

The maneuver

From the fund for tax cuts to the new shock absorbers, 185 articles are contained in the draft of the maneuver on the CDM table.

Among the measures, in addition to the intervention on pensions and income, the postponement of the sugar and plastic tax, leave for fathers, the renewal of building bonuses, funds for health and also for the 2025 Jubilee.

The budget law should provide for measures for around 30 billion. The Budget Draft Document (Dpb) foresees deficit resources of 23.4 billion. Here are some of the passages from the draft under discussion.

Quota 102 in 2022 with 64 years of age and 38 of contributions

"The age and contributory seniority requirements referred to in the first period of this paragraph are determined at 64 years of age and 38 years of contributory seniority for those who meet the requirements in the year 2022 ". The draft budget law provides for this, confirming the passage from Quota 100 to Quota 102 for pensions. "The right obtained by 31 December 2022 can also be exercised subsequently". "In the first application, by February 28, 2022, the related permanent staff may submit an application for termination of service", provides the law.

For the expansion contract, the threshold of 50 employees

The expansion contract, which allows the pension slide for up to five years, favoring turnover, is extended to the years 2022 and 2023 and for these two years the "minimum limit" of company employees drops to fifty, threshold to be able to access it. Total number also calculated "in the hypothesis of stable aggregation of companies with a single production or service purpose".

The shock absorbers have been extended, rates from 0.5% to 0.8%

The social shock absorbers are extended to companies with less than five employees, currently uncovered by the cig. And from January 1, 2022, the funding rate of the Wage Integration Fund (Fis, so far paid by companies with more than five employees) is set at 0.50% for employers who, in the semester preceding the submission of the application, have employed up to five employees. On the other hand, it is 0.80% for employers with more than five employees. The additional contribution of 4% of the lost salary linked to use has been confirmed.

A billion in income, you lose with 2 no to a job

Refinancing of the income of citizenship, tightening on the controls and crimes that prevent access to the measure, new mechanisms to favor the search for work of the beneficiaries: these are some of the measures on income contained in the draft of the maneuver on the table of the Council of Ministers. The "employable" beneficiaries will have to sign the Pact for work at the same time as sending the DRC application and will be able to refuse a maximum of two job offers under penalty of forfeiture of the benefit.

After 6 months Income cut 5 euros per month for the 'employable'

After the first six months the Citizenship Income will suffer a cut of 5 euros per month. The draft of the maneuver specifies, however, that the measure applies only to 'employable', that is, those subject to the obligations associated with the use of the benefit. Families with children under 3 years of age or with severely disabled or non self-sufficient people are excluded from the cut. The reduction does not apply to those who receive less than 300 euros (multiplied by the corresponding parameter of the equivalence scale). The cut is suspended when at least one component of the core begins to work.

52 million at equal wages, down post-maternity contributions

New resources for gender equality and wages are arriving with the maneuver: according to what is read in the draft budget law, the Fund to support gender wage equality goes from 2 million euros a year to 52 million. And a Strategic Plan will be created to combat gender stereotypes, and bridge the gaps in work, pay and pensions. In addition, on an experimental basis for 2022, the exemption of 50% of the payment of social security contributions paid by employed mothers in the private sector is recognized as from the return to work after maternity.

8 billion for Irpef and Irap cuts

Eight billion a year from 2022 for the cut in Irpef and Irap. Two objectives: the first aims "to reduce the income tax of individuals with the aim of reducing the tax wedge on labor and the effective marginal rates, to be achieved through both the reduction of one or more rates and an organic review the system of deductions for employee income and supplementary treatment "; the second aims to reduce "the rate of the regional tax on productive activities".

Superbonus 110% in 2023, then decalage until 2025

Extension of the superbonus to 110% for 2023, then the 'decalage' starts at 70% for 2024 and 65% for 2025. There is also an extension for 2022 for single-family houses and villas but with an Isee roof set at 25 thousand euros and therefore limited to the first houses.

2 billion against expensive bills in the first 3 months of 2022

Another 2 billion is arriving to "contain the effects of price increases in the electricity and natural gas sector in the first quarter of 2022".

With these resources "the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment will reduce the rates relating to general system charges".

150 million to industrial transition, the Climate

Fund An ad hoc Fund is born, with 150 million a year starting from 2022, to support the industrial transition. This is foreseen by the draft of the maneuver that also establishes an Italian Climate Fund, managed by CDP, which was created with an endowment of 840 million a year from 2022 to 2026 and could be further financed also by private individuals or with European and international funds. The fund for industrial transition will be able to grant "concessions" to companies in the "energy-intensive" sectors, for investments in energy efficiency, the reuse of raw materials and recycled materials and for the storage of Co2.

Ecobonus, the extension to 2024 arrives The extension of

the eco-bonus and the sismabonus until

confirmed. Among the measures that are renewed are also the incentives for windows, which remain at 50%.

Furniture- household appliances bonuses

The extension for three years, until 2024, of the furniture and household appliance bonus arrives but the spending ceiling on the basis of which the 50% deduction is calculated is reduced by two thirds: in the past it was 10 thousand euro, then in 2021 it was raised to 16 thousand euros, now it goes to 5 thousand euros.

The bonus relates to furniture or household appliances for furnishing properties undergoing renovation.

Under 36 first home

benefits

The upcoming maneuver will extend the first home purchase facilities for young people under 36 and for single-parent families with minor children until 31 December 2022. According to the draft budget law, the Guarantee Fund for the first home - which grants guarantees on mortgage loans at 50% of the principal amount - will be refinanced with an additional 242 million euros for the year 2022.

Rent discount for young people under 31, 20% up to € 2,400

A discount on rent for young people between 20 and 31 who leave home and have their own income.

The draft of the maneuver introduces a deduction of 20% up to € 2,400 for those with income within € 15,493.71.

The discount is valid both if you rent an entire apartment and if you rent a room.

Paternity leave of ten days from 2022

Paternity leave of ten days from 2022. This is foreseen by the draft of the maneuver, in relation to the compulsory leave for fathers, within five months of the birth of the child.

The leave had been raised from seven to ten days with the last maneuver, but only for 2021, now the measure becomes structural.

Fund

for the purchase of anti Covid vaccines +1.85 billion The fund, provided for in the last budget law, for the purchase of anti Covid vaccines for 2022 is increased by 1.85 billion. 

200 million for pandemic plan implementation

A loan of 200 million euros for the implementation of the measures provided for in the National Strategic-Operational Plan for the Preparation and Response to an Influenza Pandemic (PanFlu) 2021-2023, based on the standard national health needs for year 2022.

"For the same purposes, and pending the adoption of the implementing decrees of the regional and provincial pandemic plans - the draft also reads - the maximum expenditure of 350 million euros is authorized, based on the standard national health needs for the year 2023 , the exact amount of which will be defined in the agreement in the permanent conference for relations between the state, the regions and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano on the distribution of health needs.

Compared to the increase in the National Health Fund, the level of financing of the standard national health needs to which the State contributes, according to the draft of the maneuver, "is determined at 124,061 million euros for the year 2022, in 126,061 million euros for the year 2023 and 128,061 million euros for the year 2024. In addition, the fund relating to the contribution to the reimbursement to the regions of the costs incurred for the purchase of innovative drugs has increased by 100 million euros for the year 2022, 200 million euros for the year 2023 and 300 million euros from the year 2024. In order to increase the number of specialist training contracts for doctors, the additional expenditure of 194 million euros is authorized for the year 2022, € 319 million for the year 2023,347 million euros for the year 2024, 425 million euros for the year 2025, 517 million euros for the year 2026 and 543 million euros from the year 2027.

+300 million for prof-covid contracts

The fund for measures connected to the epidemiological emergency in the school

has increased by 300 million euros for the year 2022. These are resources for the extension of the so-called covid staff of teachers. This is what we read in the draft budget law that is being examined by the Council of Ministers this afternoon, which also provides for the possibility of extending the contracts signed with prof-covid until the end of the lessons of the school year 2021/2022. within the limits of the allocated resources.

Physical education teacher arrives in elementary school

The teacher of

arrives in elementary school. From the fourth and fifth curricular teaching will be given by "teachers with suitable qualifications" for "at least two hours per week". We will start for the fifth in 2022, for the fourth in 2023. The standard aims to "achieve the objectives of the NRP and promote in young people" lifestyles for harmonious growth, health and well-being. The Ministry of Education is authorized to launch the necessary competitions and the expenditure of 29.91 million in 2022, of 116.50 million in 2023, of 169.49 million in 2024 is authorized.

School building fund +200 million from 2027

The single fund for school building has increased by 200 million euros starting from the year 2027.

Research fund, 90 million more a year for the three-year period

Ninety million more each year for the three-year period 2022, 2023 and 2024, and from 2025 an increase of 100 million: this is what the draft for the Ordinary Fund for institutions and research institutions.

An increase of 50 million euros for 2023 and 100 million euros for 2024 is also expected for the Italian Science Fund. applied "which will benefit from 50 million for 2022, 150 million for 2023 and 250 million for 2024.

A billion for culture

Resources for over 1 billion euros destined for the sectors of culture and entertainment, from cinema to libraries and archives, opera foundations, publishing, villages. This is what the draft of the maneuver provides, which increases the Fund for cinema to 750 million per year and introduces the Set (temporary economic fund) for show business workers, with an endowment of 20 million for 2022 and 40 million per year from from 2023. A new fund is established for the opera foundations with 100 million for 2022 and 50 for 2023. Twenty million to combat the desertification of the villages.

18-year-old card from 2022, 25,000 euro Isee ceiling

From 2022, 18-year-olds will have an electronic card for cultural expenses. The draft of the maneuver provides for this, which makes the Culture bonus introduced in 2016 structural but introduces an income ceiling of 25 thousand euros per year. 230 million euros per year are allocated for 18-year-old residents and in possession of a residence permit. The Charter, the amount of which will be fixed by ministerial decree, will be valid for theaters, cinemas, concerts, books, newspapers, music and films, exhibitions, archaeological areas and parks, but also music, theater and language courses. For violations, card deactivation and cancellation from the accredited list are envisaged.

Woman option at 60 plus mobile window

The age limit for accessing the Woman option increases by two years: according to the draft of the maneuver it will no longer be possible to access the measure that provides for the calculation of the fully contributory allowance at 58 for employees over to a year of floating window (18 months for the self-employed but it will take 60 years (61 for the self-employed) with 35 of contributions. So in practice it will be possible to leave with 60 years of age for the employees but it will be necessary to wait a year for the floating window then in fact, a pension will be obtained at 61 for employees and at 62 and a half for the self-employed.

Warehouse

workers

Warehouse workers, beauticians, porters, personnel assigned to delivering goods, cleaning workers, drivers of vehicles, mobile and lifting machinery: these are some of the categories that will fall within the social Ape for heavy work. For these, it will be possible for 36 years of contributions, the last of which engaged in these strenuous activities, at 63 years of age to apply for the Ape, the accompanying pension allowance. For unemployed workers it will no longer be necessary to have finished the Naspi for three months.

Even teachers between heavy jobs

The work of a teacher in kindergarten and primary school is one of the hard jobs that entitle you with at least 36 years of contributions of which at least six in the last seven employees in this activity to the social Ape. The allowance is paid for 12 months a year starting from the age of 63 until access to the old-age pension. In fact, the draft maneuver is inserted in the annex on the activities that entitle teachers of primary, pre-primary and similar professions to request the allowance.

Inpgi passes to INPS from July 2022

In order to guarantee the protection of social security benefits in favor of journalists, with effect from 1 July 2022, the social security function carried out by the National Insurance Institute of Italian Journalists "Giovanni Amendola" (INPGI), under the replacement regime of the corresponding forms of compulsory social security, it is transferred, limited to the replacement management, to the National Social Security Institute (INPS) which happens in the relative active and passive relationships. This is the provisions of art. 28 of the draft of the maneuver.

With effect from the same date - article 28 still states - professional journalists, publicists and trainees holding an employment relationship of a journalistic nature are enrolled in the compulsory general insurance for invalidity, old age and survivors of employees. , as well as, with separate accounting evidence, the holders of insurance positions and holders of direct pensions and survivors already registered with the same form. The pension scheme is standardized, in compliance with the pro-rata principle, with that of employees enrolled in the Employee Pension Fund with effect from 1 July 2022. In particular, for those insured with the INPS substitute management, the amount of the pension is determined by the sum:a) of the pension shares corresponding to the contributory seniority acquired up to 30 June 2022 calculated by applying the provisions in force at the INPGI; b) the portion of the pension corresponding to the contribution seniority acquired as from 1 July 2022, applying the provisions in force in the Employee Pension Fund. In order to facilitate a rapid and effective integration of the functions, an Integration Committee has been set up consisting of the general manager and three executives of INPGI, in office as of December 31, 2021, as well as four executives in charge of general management level functions. of the INPS, coordinated by the general director of INPS, with the task of achieving the unification of operational and current procedures by 31 December 2022.

Publishing fund of 90 million in 2022, 140 in 2023

The 'Extraordinary Fund for interventions to support publishing' was established at the Ministry of Economy and Finance for the subsequent transfer to the autonomous budget of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. an endowment of 90 million euros for the year 2022 and 140 million euros for the year 2023. The fund is intended to incentivize the investments of publishing companies, including newly established ones, aimed at technological innovation and the digital transition , to the entry of young qualified professionals in the field of new media, as well as to support corporate restructuring and social safety nets and to support the demand for information.

23.5 billion more to the Cohesion Fund for local authorities

The allocation of the Fund for development and cohesion in the allocation of local authorities for the 2021-2027 programming would be increased by 23.5 billion euros, with a first tranche that provides for a disbursement of 3 billion starting from 2022.

Almost 1.5 billion for the Jubilee

Almost one and a half billion from 2022 until 2026 to finance the celebrations of the Jubilee of the Catholic Church for 2025: this is the allocation foreseen by the draft of the maneuver being examined by the CDM. Specifically, a fund of over one billion and three hundred million was created for the construction of works and functional interventions, while another fund of approximately 140 million to ensure operational coordination and expenses related to services to be rendered to the participants in the event.

Provinces and Metropolis functions

financed For the financing and development of the fundamental functions of the provinces and metropolitan cities - on the basis of standard needs and fiscal capacities - a contribution of 80 million euros is envisaged for the year 2022 which will grow over the years to to follow. In particular, the resources will amount to 100 million for the year 2023, 130 million for 2024, 150 million for 2025, 200 million for 2026, 250 million for 2027, 300 million for 2028, 400 million for year 2029, 500 million for 2030 and 600 million euros from 2031.

Increase the salary of mayors, such as governors

The function allowance of metropolitan mayors and mayors of municipalities located in regions with ordinary statute "can be increased, gradually for each of the years 2022, 2023 and permanently starting from year 2024, based on the overall salary of the presidents of the regions ". The increases will be 100 percent for metropolitan mayors, with percentages falling for other municipalities based on the number of residents.

Stop municipal tax to shops in internal areas

In order to enhance the small villages and internal areas from a tourist point of view and to combat commercial desertification and the abandonment of territories, retail trade operators and artisans who start, continue or transfer its activity in a municipality with a population of up to 500 inhabitants of inland areas can benefit, for the years 2022 and 2023, from the exemption from the municipal property tax.

The properties, for a maximum duration of 10 years, can also be granted on loan.