(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 12 - "We ask the government to withdraw 50% of the extra-profits, estimated by the same government, unreasonably by about 16 billion more than what has been collected so far in order to implement and extend the current measures until 2022, strengthen them in part relating to tax credits for companies, adding a strong tax credit for accumulations, also important for the strategy on renewables ".
This was stated by the leader of Action Carlo Calenda in a press conference in the Senate during the presentation of the amendment to the dl Ukraine bis on the taxation of the extra-profits of energy companies at 50%.
"Gas for us means 40% of electricity production.
To give you the measure of the crisis we are experiencing in Italy, in the production sector and among families, there are about 20,000 companies that risk production stoppage with almost 40 million employees employed ", he adds.
" In history, during every war the profits from these causes they have been taxed at extremely high levels.
We must consolidate a consensus among the citizens on the sanctions against Russia that will be tightened and will last for a long time, also trying to lighten the burden ", he concludes. (ANSA).
