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Zaia in Veneto will raise taxes (don’t tell Salvini)

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Zaia in Veneto will raise taxes (don't tell Salvini)

The Veneto council chaired by Luca Zaia (Lega) is thinking of introducing an increase in personal income tax which should only affect high and medium-high incomes , safeguarding those of less than 15 thousand euros. Here because.

Last August, the president of Veneto Luca Zaia announced the " 13th budget without taxation ". In recent months, many things have changed, inflation has galloped like it hasn't done since the 1980s and the price of energy has skyrocketed, making the prospect of rationing a reality. “As the Veneto council, today we have launched a rigorous budget, the result of a difficult post-covid situation that has massacred us. We hope to approve it in the Regional Council between the end of October and the beginning of November – said the president of Veneto -. We are worried about the coming autumn, just think of the increased energy costs, starting with pellets ”. In this problematic situation, Luca Zaia risks having to take a step back from the August promises and " put his hands " in the pockets of the Venetians to find the 300 million needed to settle the accounts . A further front of confrontation with the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini who in the electoral campaign had defined excessive taxation as "immoral".

ZAIA AND THE "VENETO TAX FREE" PROJECT

One of the cornerstones of Luca Zaia's fiscal policy, for 12 years now, is not to add regional taxation to bring back the accounts of the Veneto budget. But things are more complicated this year. To tell the truth, already in 2017 it had announced that it would introduce the regional income tax to address the additional expenses borne by the Region for the construction of the Venetian Pedemontana . The turnaround came after a few days, the 200 million euros for the Pedemontana were found by cutting other items in the regional budget. Similarly in 2020, to respond to the urgencies of the pandemic, the Zaia junta had tried to question the tax-free fiscal policy but even at that juncture nothing came of it.

FIND 300 MILLION EURO IN THE POCKETS OF THE VENETI (RICHEST)

This year things could go differently. The exponential increase in energy prices has caused a domino effect on the costs of all public facilities, from nursing homes to nursery schools. The solution to find these additional funds is not imaginative: to increase the regional income tax. Thus the regional government of Luca Zaia is thinking of introducing a “regionalised” increase in personal income tax which should only affect high and medium-high incomes , safeguarding those of less than 15 thousand euros. In this way, the 300 million euros needed to give breath to regional welfare should be recovered.

THE DISCUSSION AT THE TABLE OF PARTERNARIAT

The plan – underlined the Venetian newspapers of the last few days – emerged in the context of the Partnership Table , a meeting with the representatives of the economic categories and social partners, dedicated to the management of PNRR funds. During the meeting, which was attended, together with representatives of the categories of the economic, entrepreneurial, associative, trade union, university and local authorities, also the councilor for budget Francesco Calzavara and development Roberto Marcato, the scenarios were discussed financial aspects of the administrative management of Veneto. Among these also a simulation, carried out by the regional offices, on the introduction of the personal income tax to recover 300 million to be allocated to retirement homes, marginalization, fragile categories, energy price increases. The extra taxation should save the lowest incomes and affect only a quarter of the share relating to the entire Veneto.

COUNCILOR CALZAVARA: "THE MANEUVER MUST BE SHARED BY ALL THE SUBJECTS"

The table will meet again in 15 days, allowing the social partners to produce a shared response. “The hypothesis of applying or not the regional additional income tax emerges every year, this year the offices of the Budget Department have made a more in-depth study on the rates and on the effects on the territory – explained the commissioner Calzavara -. We presented it to the partnership table, postponing the reflections to a fortnight. If it is decided to approve it, it will have to be a maneuver widely shared by all parties ".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/zaia-in-veneto-alzera-le-tasse-non-ditelo-a-salvini/ on Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:19:02 +0000.