Also divided on taxes, the center-right does not exist. Draghi’s ambiguities on the land register

6 October 20213 years ago babelfish

Scarcely 24 hours have passed since the closing of the polls, with the polls still hot, Forza Italia provides the plastic demonstration of the disarticulation of the center-right we were talking about yesterday in the first analysis of the administrative vote. With all due respect to the calls for unity of a few hours earlier …

Not even on taxes they make common cause in the Draghi government. On a qualifying point such as the land registry reform, and more generally the fiscal delegation, the ministers of the two center-right parties in government have taken different paths: the League ministers have abandoned the control room and did not take part in the Council of Ministers , while the force ministers Brunetta, Gelmini and Carfagna approved it "with conviction", despite the fact that Forza Italia, like the other parties in the coalition, said it was opposed to any intervention on the land registry. The center-right, it is now evident to anyone, is a cartel for local elections, obliged by the voting system, but at the national level it does not exist, it is a fiction, a ghost …

On Twitter , Mara Carfagna justified their position as follows:

“The text of the tax delegation is clear, we at Forza Italia approved it with conviction: the reformulation of the land registry cannot have consequences on taxation. We are the party that abolished the IMU, we would never have said yes if there was a risk for the house. "

According to the president of Confedilizia , Giorgio Spaziani Testa, there is a risk: "The conditions are being prepared for bloodletting, but others are left with the task of implementing it".

And in fact, it is enough to read the text to realize it: the government is delegated, among other things, to "assign to each real estate unit, in addition to the cadastral income determined according to the legislation currently in force, also the relative asset value and a discounted annuity in based on the normal values expressed by the market ". And to "provide for mechanisms for periodic adjustment of the assets and income of urban real estate units, in relation to the modification of the conditions of the reference market and in any case not above market values" (and God forbid !, ed )

As we had foreseen , Forza Italia has swallowed the formula of the invariance of revenues, on which however an ambiguity persists, in addition to puns (“it is not a revision of the land registry but a reformulation”).

The ambiguity is played out precisely on the concept of invariance of revenue. Must it be understood as limited to the intervention on the land registry (and then, why do it?), Or to the tax reform as a whole, thus implying a redistribution of the burden among the various taxes?

In the last press conference it seemed to us that Draghi was referring only to the land registry, when he said that "no one will pay more and no less" on the house today. This is much more demanding than the parity of income, which presupposes not to collect more, but to settle the possible variations among taxpayers.

So much so that Spaziani Testa had immediately branded a reform of the land register with the same revenue as impossible.

In yesterday's press conference, Draghi repeated it, "no one will pay more", but he also added something different: "The average taxpayer will not notice anything regarding the land registry". So, it seems to understand, the hardly average taxpayers will notice. Therefore, it seems to be understood, the above average taxpayers will pay more, those below the average will pay less. But this is not what Draghi said last week, when he assured "no one will pay more and no less" than today. Denying himself, he essentially says that some will pay more, some less, only the average taxpayer will not notice.

"The target system – he added – does not intend to increase the overall revenue but to decrease it, because today it is out of line with other countries".

And here too it seems to understand that by system we mean the tax system, not just the land registry, and by total “out of line” revenue, therefore to be decreased, we mean all tax revenues, not just those on the house. And in fact we are talking about a virtually zero-balance delegation, given that for the implementation the government foresees two billion in 2022 and one in 2023, resources that will be integrated with the phantom new revenues from the fight against tax evasion. If the tax burden on the whole decreases, it will be something imperceptible. Also on this, if this corresponds to the needs of the country, the center-right parties should make an assessment.

In short, the level of ambiguity of the Prime Minister on the subject is such that he cannot be sure, but our reading is that a process is being initiated to further shift the tax burden on the house, to reduce it to other items, for example the Irpef.

But rest assured, it will take time, years. The decisions to be made, explained the premier, are two and completely different: "The first is to build an adequate information base, the second is to decide whether to change taxes and we have not made this decision today". It would have been only self-defeating to take it, however, since it will still take five years to update the annuities. "We will talk about it again in 2026". And let's go back to Spaziani Testa's summary: “The conditions are being prepared for bloodletting, but others are left with the task of implementing it”.

It must be borne in mind that the increase in cadastral income does not only mean the increase in the tax on the house that we all think about, that is the Imu. Related to cadastral income are, for example, registration taxes, inheritance taxes and VAT, but also the Tari, the tariff on waste, the rate of which is set by the municipalities and not by the central government, and the Isee. Of course, while the update is still in progress, the increases will not trigger. But once finished, they will be automatic without any need for further regulatory interventions, because it will be an increase not in taxes but in the tax base.

Perhaps burnt by the response of yesterday's polls, the League had asked for more time to examine the draft of the proxy, received a few minutes before the control room, asking to eliminate the revision of the cadastral estimates and limit itself to the emergence of the "ghost" properties.

But it is an inadmissible request, because as is well known, discounting the annuities and their automatic adjustment are two essential points for Brussels.

With a very poisonous tissue paper, Draghi sent back to the sender: "We learn from sources in Palazzo Chigi that the fiscal proxy is still under examination by the CDM (and may be approved), despite the absence of the League". And so it was, it was approved, with the League in absentia.

"There are differences of views, but the government action has continued", explained Draghi himself at a press conference. "There will be many other opportunities for exchanges both in Parliament on the same law and on delegated decrees". The absence of the League from the CDM “will be explained by the honorable Salvini (senator, editor's note ) today or tomorrow. But the exchanges that took place in the control room and in the conversations had given enough elements to evaluate the delegation law ”.

In fact, the premier kindly agreed not to bring the text to the CDM before the closing of the polls, but its contents – including the cadastre – were widely announced. For the League it was not a question of buying time, but of pronouncing a clear "no".

But this treatment is not surprising. The premier has the League, or at least his ministers, in hand, because his presence in the government is not linked to a program to be implemented and red lines not to be crossed, but to the very figure of the Prime Minister.

So yes, the tear is evident. But the premier knows he has the numbers (thanks to Forza Italia, now the fifth column of the left, tax and spend) and he also knows that in the end the League in Parliament will vote for confidence (more than likely) on the fiscal delegation – although certainly with many absences such as on the Green Pass decrees – because leaving the government is simply not an option for those who have staked everything on the election of Draghi at the Quirinale and have subordinated everything else to this goal. Unless Salvini is stuck, but considering splitting the party, with the Giorgettians on the road to Alfano. Unlikely.

Now, Draghi al Colle wants to go and how, but while he knows he has the unconditional support of the Lega and Forza Italia in his pocket, he knows just as well that that of the Democratic Party is anything but obvious. Indeed, Letta's party would like to nail him to Palazzo Chigi to place one of his numerous suitors at the Quirinale. Apart from the land registry reform, which is an EU imperative, it should not be surprising, therefore, if in the last period the premier seemed to mistreat the League – and in particular Salvini, which is obviously not part of the 'projects' of the Democratic Party, but not even of the "Party Draghi ”in his party.

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