Flat tax at 100 thousand euros, Meloni on the attack: the left confuses turnover and salary

The issue of increasing the threshold of the flat rate regime to 100 thousand euros (Flat tax on VAT numbers) continues to inflame the political debate. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni directly defends the measure included in the Budget Bill (now being examined by the Chamber) and goes on the attack against opposition criticism in a video published on her social channels. Video in which he defines the increase in the revenue or compensation threshold as "a common sense measure to help those who take risks on their own to create value and don't give up". An official defense that also comes after the criticisms on the tax disparities that emerged in the hearings in Parliament.

«Until today, a plumber, an accountant, a physiotherapist, if they worked hard and exceeded 85 thousand euros in turnover, left the flat rate regime, that is, goodbye to the single tax of 15% and entered the ordinary regime. And therefore, paradoxically, a year that had gone well ended up becoming a penalty, and those who produced were forced to slow down rather than grow. For this reason, from 2027 the threshold of the flat-rate regime will rise to 100 thousand euros for Irpef, while for VAT an agreement with the European Union is needed and we are working on it."

«Now - adds the prime minister - the left says that thus a self-employed person who invoices 100 thousand euros is a privileged person, only that he confuses, and often on purpose, the turnover with the salary, that is, he omits to say that from that 100 thousand euros the self-employed person must deduct the expenses for working, the contributions he pays himself and the taxes. Then the self-employed person does not have paid holidays, the thirteenth salary, the severance pay, when he gets ill, when he becomes a parent he has much weaker protections than an employee, so the comparison with the employee does not hold up, because they are two completely different stories".

«The truth is that for the left the self-employed are second-class workers, whereas for us workers are all the same, whatever contract they have. And we respect and want to help those who take risks on their own to create value and don't give up", concludes Meloni.