New help against high bills: What will happen in the spring, when current support measures end? The Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti, who was interviewed yesterday at the opening of Telefisco’s work, was the first to address the issue: “We are working on mechanisms that are perhaps more efficient in terms of aid, more flexible than consumption and consumption trends. The Northern League is concerned above all with families. “Before the April deadline, the Italian government will intervene in some way to extend price reduction measures to families and businesses, possibly in a different form than we have seen so far and is the result of the emergency”.
What could it actually be? Let’s go in order. The new assistance system for households and workplaces against high energy costs, which is in effect today and is intended to replace the mechanisms extended until 31 March by the last Budget law, has not yet been defined. But something is leaking. Energy bill prices are still far from normalization. The ambitious goal is to help support family budgets and company income statements while promoting energy-saving practices.
If energy savings in the company often means reducing production (everything must be done to avoid this scenario), individual choices to reduce unnecessary energy use in families can have a greater impact. So, according to a thoughtlessness Only 24 Hours, the hypothesis that the government is working on is that a controlled price can be introduced for families up to a certain share of consumption, measured against last year. Exact parameters and numbers still need to be defined and this will inevitably depend on the intersection between the tax margins available, first of all thanks to Community interventions, and energy prices in the spring. “In any case, the idea is to guarantee the light price to a consumption level quite close to last year (eg 70-90%)”, writes the newspaper Confindustria. Instead, tax incentives for companies to use renewable energies will be reviewed. However, trying to avoid financing foreign monopolies such as China’s monopolies on photovoltaics.
All eyes are on the Meloni government’s next choice: According to an analysis by Barometer Political, 71% of Italians report a rise in gas and energy bills as their second main concern, after inflation, but long before expensive oil. The government’s struggle to contain the rise in the cost of living seems to be starting to affect some public opinion: Confidence in the government has dropped from 43% in mid-December to 40% today.
Source: Today IT
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