The second day of discussions between the government and the social partners on tax reform began shortly after 9.30 am. After the trade unions, met yesterday, today the representatives of companies and professional orders are summoned to Palazzo Chigi starting from Confindustria, Abi, Confapi, Confimi, Confartigianato, Cna, Casartigiani, Cia, Confcommercio, Confesercenti, Federdistribuzione, Federterziario, Confeservizi, Coldiretti, Confagricoltura, Copagri. Afterwards, from 11, it will be the turn of Ania, Ance, Confedilizia, Alleanza Cooperative, Confcooperative, Unicoop, Cndcec (Accountants), National Council of the Order of Labor Consultants, Confprofessioni, Assoprofessioni, ANTI (Italian Tax Lawyers). The government is represented by the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, by the Deputy Minister,
It's a tax dispute.
Cgil, Cisl and Uil, united again, reject the plan of the reform,
first of all contesting the method but also the merits
.
The government is preparing to bring the enabling bill to the Council of Ministers on Thursday, opens the round of meetings with the social partners by receiving the trade unions at Palazzo Chigi - on Wednesday morning it will be the turn
of
business and category associations and professional orders
- it relaunches the scope of structural intervention:
"a revolution" 50 years after the last overall reform which dates back to the 1970s.
But the trade unions are not there: so far, they are attacking, and 48 hours after the convening of the CDM there has not been a "true" confrontation, but only an "informative one".
And, in the absence of answers, not only on the taxman but also on other open issues - from pensions to safety at work - they say they are ready to evaluate mobilization initiatives.
Including the CISL.
After the strike by CGIL and UIL their relations had remained colder.
Now the positions converge towards unity of action.
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A stance that comes on the eve of the CGIL congress, which opens today in Rimini, where the Prime Minister,
Giorgia Meloni,
will also speak from the stage on Friday .
The wait is on her intervention.
Meanwhile, the government
ensures "the utmost openness to dialogue and confrontation"
throughout the parliamentary process of approving the tax delegation and subsequent implementing decrees, considering that there are two years available.
The question, for the unions, is about dialogue but also about the contents, albeit at the moment completely "summary", they attack.
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In fact, they don't like the way of reducing personal income tax rates from 4 to 3 brackets,
and extending the flat tax.
At the table at Palazzo Chigi with the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, the Deputy Minister Maurizio Leo and the Undersecretary to the Prime Minister, Alfredo Mantovano, there is no shortage of a lively exchange.
For the unions there are the deputy general secretary of the CGIL, Gianna Fracassi, the leader of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra, the confederal secretary of the UIL, Domenico Proietti.
The number one of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, is already in Rimini to prepare the opening of the congress, the leader of the UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, in Florence for an assembly already scheduled previously.
Taxman, Fracassi (Cigl): 'We don't agree with the Flax Tax, not with cuts to the detriment of the welfare state'
The meeting with the government "didn't go well either on the merits or on the method. That's not exactly going. There was a
lack of involvement and we are not in agreement either on the Irpef reduction, because it favors high and very high incomes, nor on the flat tax, which is outside the dimension of progressiveness envisaged by the Constitution", Fracassi affirmed as he left.
Cgil, Cisl and Uil, which have long had a single platform on taxation, insist on the need to reduce taxes starting from low and medium incomes from work and retirement and from "those who pay them down to the last cent", insists Sbarra , which underlines the "inadequacy" of the method and the "urgency" of having answers.
"We need to speed up the comparison on social security, health and safety, quality and job stability.
If the government responds, fine;
otherwise we are ready to evaluate the mobilization initiatives to be implemented together with the CGIL and UIL".
Another crucial issue is the fight against tax evasion, which the government intends to "pursue vigorously", also aiming to encourage the return of capital, simplify compliance and in general to reach "a tax friend". The 20 billion recovered this year should go to workers and pensioners and the 5-point wedge cut already this year and not over the term, he argues the Uil. The government responds to the unions by re-launching the objective of a reform "as concrete and shared as possible" but also by noting that the intervention aims to favor dependent work,
On taxation, "the Government has the ambitious plan to make an overall reform", "on the merits there is more than something concerning work but we will then have to intervene in detail when we have a definitive text", he said, after the meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the unions on the tax delegation, the general secretary of the
Ugl Paolo Capone
"There is a complex of interventions in favor of work that seem to us in line with the requests we have made, but in detail we will have to see them written and then we will make an evaluation ".
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