Certainly, as already anticipated several times by the executive, salaries are at the center of the reasoning for the next Budget Law: in last year's budget law, moreover, the salary package already included various benefits which will expire at the end of the year and which, therefore, require new allocations to be confirmed.
"Several times the government has reiterated the priorities regarding the continuation of the process of reducing income taxes for the middle class", said Giorgetti, responding to the question time in the Chamber and confirming that the revision of the Irpef bracket "is one of the objectives". "Naturally these are choices that will have to converge in a synthesis", he however underlined. The reduction in Irpef, therefore, should also concern the middle class, with an indirect reference to the bracket between 50 and 60 thousand euros.
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Among the expiring benefits is the supplementary treatment for night work and overtime on public holidays recognized to tourism workers and which expires on 30 September: the measure has been reconfirmed several times in recent years and now a reprogramming is needed for 2027. Furthermore, this year a flat tax of 15% on shift allowances and wages for work carried out at night or on holidays has also been envisaged within a maximum of 1,500 euros, which entails a cost, in terms of lower revenue, of 534.8 million euros in a year.
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But the Meloni government, on the subject of salaries, has also made other promises over the years, such as the tax relief on thirteenth wages and that of a lighter tax rate for young people.
In the first case, according to what emerged, the aim is for a substitute tax of 15% (or 10%) for those with incomes of up to 15,000 euros, guaranteeing a net saving on the paycheck of between 200 and 500 euros. A selective intervention worth 500 million is hypothesized.
In the second case, that of a lighter tax rate for young people, the intervention proposals presented last year in Parliament start from a minimum of 200 million euros.
Not only that. Prime Minister Meloni, at Porta a Porta, underlined: "In the private sector we have implemented a tax exemption on contractual increases, increased to 5%. From the studies carried out by the Ministry of Labour, the measure concerned over 4 million workers who received an increase thanks to this measure. It is a measure that I want to confirm in the next budget law. Little by little we are recovering with wages".
The government must also keep faith with its recent promise to eliminate car tax for some cars, which will cost 2.3 billion euros for just one year (2027).
As mentioned, by the beginning of October (by the 2nd, specifically) the government must present and transmit to the Chambers the Public Finance Planning Document (DPFP) which replaced the old Nadef. Then by mid-month the government must present and send the Draft Budgetary Plan (Dpb) to the European Commission. Subsequently, by 20 October the Council of Ministers must approve the budget bill and send it to Parliament, which thus opens the budget session. The final date, however, remains December 31st, the maximum limit for approval.
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