Meloni: 'For the left, second-class self-employed people, we help those who take risks on their own'

"Until now, a plumber, an accountant, a physiotherapist, if we worked hard and had a turnover exceeding 85 thousand euros, they 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 produce were pushed to slow down rather than grow. For this reason, from 2027 the threshold of the flat-rate regime rises to 100 thousand euros per Irpef, while for VAT we need an agreement with the EU and we are working on it". This is how Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni explains, in a new video on social media, the measure contained in the maneuver which extends the flat tax to 100 thousand euros. In the post that accompanies the video, which lasts just over a minute, the intervention is defined as a "common sense measure".

"Now the left says that so a self-employed person who invoices 100 thousand euros is a privileged person, except that he confuses - and I must say often on purpose - the turnover with the salary. That is, he omits to say that from those 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 sick and when he becomes a parent he has much weaker protections than a employee", states the prime minister, who adds: "So the comparison with the employee does not hold up, because they are two completely different stories". "The truth - continues Meloni - 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 we want to help those who take risks on their own to create value and don't give up".