Economic maneuver: Giorgetti proposes flat taxes for young people, Salvini aims to cut bonuses

The proposal for a 5% flat tax on salary increases for young people "will be discussed within the coalition", said Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti at the UDCO party. "It is one of the ideas put on the table", noted the minister, and which "we will address in the coming weeks when the maneuver is discussed". Giorgetti said that "the collaboration of employers" is needed since companies would have to increase young people's paychecks and in exchange the state would recognize a lower rate on this additional part.

"The recent increase in rates by the ECB, to combat inflation, entails greater burdens for those in debt, such as families, businesses and also for the state." Giorgetti recalled this by underlining how "in these moments, with the increase in rates, we understand how important it is to keep the debt under control, and to have the trust of the markets and savers to place it".

"We are approaching what is perhaps the last financial law with a great spirit of responsibility and the awareness that we must try to help and promote development to meet those social classes and classes that so far have not had the attention they deserved. And above all we must make a sort of inventory of the measures adopted and how they impact because there is the risk of duplicating measures on some income classes and excluding others. This must be reconsidered", added Giorgetti underlining that "we intend to continue to intervene in selective and as fair as possible and I would say intelligent way on reducing tax pressure on some categories. The panel is dedicated to the middle class which is important not only in economic but also political terms, because when gaps increase social and political tensions are generated. I think we need to think about something particular for young people, we already have demographic decline and I know that the UDC is very sensitive to the issue. We will continue to do something and we must continue to promote the entrepreneurial spirit: the entrepreneur exists if he continues to believe in it and invest in the long term".

"In these 4 years the government has achieved results in terms of international standing on public financial management without austerity interventions: we have reduced the tax wedge, we have promoted incentives for businesses but if I have to take stock as of September 13th I cannot fail to consider the global situations. There are conflicts and consequences on energy prices and indirectly on inflation which are before everyone's eyes. It is a problem which, in my opinion, cannot be addressed only with economic policy tools", the minister further stated.

Salvini: 'In the maneuver we will cap bonus collectors and expand the audience'

"In my opinion, it is necessary to put a cap on bonus collectors in the budget law to broaden the audience. Otherwise the middle class will move ever closer to the lowest rung of the chain." This was said by the deputy prime minister and minister of transport, Matteo Salvini, in connection with the UDC national celebration underway in Rome.

Salvini began by saying that "there are dozens of public bonuses, we have counted around 50, given by Municipalities, Provinces, Regions, INPS and other state bodies which always end up in the same pockets".

Then he gave the example of the electricity, water and gas bonus which "is given below 10 thousand euros of ISEE and tell me, who is in the room, who has 10 thousand euros of ISEE and perhaps an inherited house and two savings in the current account and if the ISEE is raised to 20 thousand in the presence of 4 children... So now if all these bonuses have an ISEE cap of between 10-15 and 20 thousand euros, there are some bonus collectors who believe it is more useful to ask for bonuses without checks and verifications, only with a self-certification, while the entire middle class, families and pensioners are excluded from the vast majority of public contributions".

"This autumn there will be a MIT announcement for the payment of rent by separated or divorced parents. We need to help people who work, not those who don't work or work illegally", added the deputy prime minister.

"Beyond the chatter of the left, we are working on the budget law and among my dossiers there is also the housing plan. I am following the start of the first works at the beginning of 2027 and the return, starting from the spring of 2027, of 60 thousand public houses which this morning are empty but will be rearranged and assigned to those who have been patiently on the waiting list for years for public housing, with many regards to Salis and to those who they have a different concept about the house", he concluded.