Minister Giorgetti is ‘bullying’ Parliament and President Fontana to hide his failure. The truth is clear: the accounts do not add up. The maneuver presented by the government lacks adequate coverage and is based on an estimate of GDP growth that Istat has halved, contradicting the executive’s forecasts. Faced with these numbers, the race to increase taxes that we are witnessing is the result of the political and managerial incapacity of Minister Giorgetti and those who support him”. Thus the leader of the Democratic group in the Budget Committee in the Chamber, Ubaldo Pagano.
Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti in the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome
Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti in the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome (ansa)
15/12/2024
“Even the reduced taxation of 5% for nurses, presented as a measure in favor of a strategic category and which in essence does not see you against, is actually covered by subtracting resources from the National Health Fund – continues Pagano – This means a further reduction in the resources available for contract renewals, to compensate for inflation, for the updating of diagnostic machines, for the introduction of the new LEA and for the reduction of waiting lists. The same people will always pay: families and businesses, which will suffer a further increase in the tax burden while the economy remains at a standstill. We ask for transparency. Under these conditions, a complete and serious examination of the amendments that the government has presented through the rapporteurs is not possible”.
Schlein Pd
Schlein Pd (Ansa)
15/12/2024
All the oppositions, apart from Azione, have written a letter to the president of the Chamber of Deputies Lorenzo Fontana asking him to declare inadmissible an amendment to the maneuver presented on Saturday evening in the budget committee. Too much heterogeneity in the area of the amendments, the last of which was reformulated yesterday by the rapporteurs, and the absence of a technical report that allows “an in-depth analysis of the content and proposed regulatory effects”.
The oppositions point out that the content of this amendment, in combination with two others by the government “with equally heterogeneous content, substantially rewrite a good part of the budget law, without allowing a complete legislative investigation to be carried out according to the regulations”.
Budget Committee
Chamber of Deputies Budget Committee (LaPresse)
20/12/2022
The text collects provisions that deal with completely different regulatory areas, ranging, for example, from direct and indirect taxation to health policies, from interventions for the South to the refinancing of funds for international missions, up to changes in the field of tax justice and employment incentives”, it is objected.
Without a technical report, it is not possible to verify precisely the financial coverage: the amendment presented yesterday by the government introduces provisions that involve new burdens for the state budget, such as the establishment of new funds, the modification of tax rates and the introduction of concessions.
Maneuver
Manoeuvre (Ansa)
15/12/2024
In the evening comes the no of the President of the Chamber to the requests of the opposition. Lorenzo Fontana writes that “The lack of technical reports can be remedied by the ‘articulated reports’ presented by the rapporteurs, and to overcome the heterogeneity of the amendments one can use “the vote on sub-amendments, with the use of the tool of split voting”.