‘Giorgia’s notes’ are back, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s column on his social channels. The first topic addressed by the prime minister is tax reform, which has received harsh criticism from the opposition: “It is the first of the major reforms. We trigger the enabling law. We will have a completely new tax system 50 years after the last intervention on the subject. We want to lower taxes, with particular attention to lower-middle incomes, put order in the jungle of deductions that cost the Italian State 125 billion euros, we want to support workers and raise wages and as far as companies are concerned, the measures will towards ‘Hire more and pay less. We want to build a completely different relationship between the tax authorities and the taxpayer. A taxpayer who must once again be treated as a citizen and no longer as a subject. We want to rewrite the taxpayer’s statute, give justice and security to those who pay taxes. Contrasting tax evasion with taxpayer compliance, the approach must be based on accountability. At the same time, we intend to be strict with those who are concerned about the measures taken by the government and evade taxes. We will use the databases available to the state”.
Then Meloni makes a clarification: “In the bill there is also a norm that adapts the criminal rules to our tax truce, there has been a lot of confusion, the opposition says that we have introduced a criminal tax amnesty, it is false, we do it. With the fiscal truce, the installments are foreseen and we adapted this rule establishing that the process is suspended until the Federal Revenue says that you are paying the installments regularly”.
“In the last council of ministers – continues Meloni, changing the subject – we approved the modification of the procurement code, another great and important long-awaited reform. The objective is trivial, to do the works, well, in an acceptable way, combating theft but without stopping what needs to be done indefinitely”. The president of Fratelli d’Italia closes her speech with culinary arguments: “Italian cuisine is a candidate for UNESCO heritage, I am happy with that, we are a food superpower because we are threatened by large lobbies that would like to standardize everything. Food produced by insects hits the shelves, we inform citizens of this with a nice visible label, it will have to be indicated if there is insect flour. We are the first nation that decided to ban the production of synthetic foods, we were the first, but who knows if someone is following us. We – the gloss in the ‘notes’ video – do not want to ban, but we want to defend the health of citizens”.
Source: IL Tempo
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