
The Foreign Minister excludes punitive taxation but hopes for collaboration for the economic maneuver
Minister Antonio Tajani excludes taxes on extra profits in the next budget, instead proposing a collaborative contribution from banks, insurance companies and other entities such as Cassa Depositi e Prestiti to address the high energy costs.
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The Italian government is defining the next economic maneuver in a context of high energy costs. The political debate focuses on the methods of obtaining financial coverage.
"As regards the coverage" of the measure "we have always said that we are absolutely against the taxation of extra profits, which there will not be, also because what is extra profit and who decides what extra profit is". Antonio Tajani says so.
"There will be a contribution from banks, insurance companies and also other entities, because in a moment like the one we are experiencing, it is essential to have everyone's help. But as far as I'm concerned, not with a punitive vision, but with a request for collaboration to help Italy at a time when we have to address the issue of high energy costs", adds the Foreign Minister and secretary of Forza Italia on the sidelines of the Federchimica assembly in Milan.
Among the "other realities" that Antonio Tajani is thinking of to contribute to the government's next maneuver "there could be entrepreneurial realities, I am also thinking of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti".
"Let's see, we are working with Minister Giorgetti to identify the best tool to have all the necessary coverage. I am convinced that the cooperative credit banks will be kept out of the request for contributions. But I repeat, there will be no taxes on extra profits, there will be other measures", adds the Foreign Minister and secretary of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, responding to journalists.
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Definition of hedging instruments with Minister Giorgetti.
Very likely · Within weeks

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