Taxman, Leo: "The reform in the CDM will be next week, the personal income tax rates will be only 3"

The Deputy Minister of Economy, Maurizio Leo, confirms the

for approval of the enabling law on tax reform in the Council of Ministers.

"I think so, we are in the final stages", replied Leo to those who asked if next week would be the right one for his approval.

"We will be able to bring it to the Council of Ministers by mid-March, then there will be parliamentary times", he promised on the sidelines of a meeting of the Milan Accountants Association. 

Then when asked about the EU's request to Italy to recover the ICI from the Church for the years 2006-2011, Leo replied that "when there are community rules you have to comply, but even there you have to see the limits because there are situations in which there is no commerciality, then in those cases we need to see how to make the indications of the EU consistent with the peculiarities of certain structures of the Catholic Church".

Leo confirms the government's intention to reduce the Irpef rates to three

, also leveraging on a review of tax expenditures, i.e. tax deductions and deductions.

"I think the conditions exist for reducing the number of rates: we can get to a system of 3, we are working on it with the Accounting Department", said Leo.

"We have around 600 tax expenditures that account for 156 billion Cubans. We can intervene there. If you do a careful review, you can find the resources to better calibrate the rates," he added.