Meloni: 'Without car tax Italians save 2.3 billion'

"Car tax: the others had promised to eliminate it. We have removed it for the vast majority of citizens". Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated this on social media, announcing that "in these days" she will talk "through a series of short videos, the main measures contained in the budget maneuver and the concrete benefits for citizens, families and businesses".

"How many parties in Italy have promised to abolish car tax? - begins the Prime Minister in the first video of the series - In 2016 Renzi announced it, in 2019 Di Maio defined it as an odious tax to be eliminated. The list would be long. The difference is that they promised it and we did it. From 2027 the tax will no longer be paid on the first car owned up to 80 kW, that is, on the vast majority of cars you see parked under the house, which are used in the city by families. And the tax is also abolished on motorbikes, without limits on engine size".

"It is a measure - says Meloni - which puts 2.3 billion euros directly back into the pockets of Italian families, because while on the left there are those who continue to propose property taxes, we are cutting property taxes. And the measure is structural, so those who talked about a tip or an electoral measure will have to update their contents".