Maneuver: the measures on mortgages, sports, universities. For cigarettes rise 20 cents

For cigarettes, 20 cents rise, e-cigs also go up

- The increase in the cost of cigarettes envisaged by the draft of the maneuver amounts to about 20 cents in the first year and is between 10 and 15 on average over the three years.

After two years of no tax increases, the text raises the so-called 'specific' excise duty (today in Italy at the lowest levels in Europe) from 23 to 36 euros per 1,000 cigarettes in 2023, to 36.50 euros per 1,000 cigarettes in 2024 and to 37.00 euros per 1,000 cigarettes starting from 2025. An increase in the fixed part which entails an automatic reduction in the variable part of the excise duty and which, on balance, translates precisely into an average increase in prices, considering both high and low-end products, about 20 cents a pack the first year and 10-15 cents over the three years on average.

The tax on e-cigarettes is stabilized,

already protagonists in past years of increases but then sterilized.

In this case it is about 8 cents per ml for e-cigs without nicotine and about 13 euro cents per ml for products with nicotine.

In the wake of recent years in this case, the tax on heated tobacco continues to increase.

Over the four years it amounts to 10-15 cents.

According to some estimates, the whole operation would involve a collection of over 100 million a year.

Stop the increases in fines and ad hoc loans for some important works such as the Turin-Lyon and the SS106: in particular, in the last case a multi-year loan of 3 billion euro is envisaged for the modernization and safety of the artery in the stretch falling within the Calabria Region, "a historic result after years of unheard requests".

This was announced by MIT led by Matteo Salvini, boasting "concrete results that go in the direction indicated in the electoral program".

Change the funding regime for universities for the economic treatment of postgraduates.

The MEF is authorized to grant advances to universities, "based on the level of financing pertaining to the financial year, to an extent not exceeding 90% (instead of the previously fixed 80%, ed.) of the value established in the last available allotment approved by decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, or by the provisional value of the funding estimated by the Ministry of University and Research with directorial decree".

The maneuver provides for it, as stated in a draft of the text approved by the Council of Ministers.

"The Ministry of Economy and Finance is authorized to carry out, where necessary, recoveries or compensations,

6 million euros are on the way to support the Italian sports movement, half of which to support maternity leave for non-professional athletes.

In the first draft of the maneuver circulated since yesterday, the Single Fund created for this purpose in the 2018 budget law (10.5 million euros a year from 2021), has increased by another 2 million "for each of the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, of which 1 million euros is intended to support maternity leave for non-professional athletes".

- "In order to promote tourist attractiveness and to encourage tourist flows in mountain places and ski areas, guaranteeing the safety of the installations, a Fund has been set up in the estimates of the Ministry of Tourism, with an endowment of 30 euros million for the year 2023, 50 million euros for the year 2024, 70 million euros for the year 2025 and 50 million euros for the year 2026, to be allocated to companies operating cableway lifts and of artificial snow, in order to carry out energy efficiency, restructuring, modernization and maintenance interventions, aimed at guaranteeing adequate safety standards".

An article of the maneuver in the draft circulated yesterday provides for it.

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There are not only concessions for the purchase of a first home for young people under 36 and single parents with minor children among the measures of the maneuver in support of those who want or have taken out a mortgage: how reads the first draft circulated yesterday, access to the Gasparrini Fund, the solidarity fund on first home mortgages, will continue to be allowed to a wider audience throughout 2023, as established since the beginning of the pandemic.

Not only Cig workers but also those who have lost their jobs, freelancers and VAT numbers in economic difficulty, building cooperatives will therefore be able to request the suspension of mortgage installments through the fund.