The Chamber approved the confidence placed by the government on the Bills decree, with 199 votes in favor, 129 against. The sitting was suspended for a few minutes. At 16 p.m. the consideration of the 85 agendas began. The final vote on the decree is expected to take place in the late afternoon-evening.
In their explanations of vote, the SVP and the linguistic minorities had announced their abstention on the confidence placed by the government on the bills decree while they will vote in favor of the measure. This was announced in the Chamber of Deputies Renate Gebhard.
"You have won the sad record of two trusts a week, it was not easy, and with today's one on the so-called 'bill decree' you show all your contempt for Parliament," said Marco Grimaldi, vice president of the Green Alliance and the Left in the Chamber, about the vote of confidence underway today.
"The provision is written for the friends of evaders and evaders, positive there was only the rule on the stabilization of researchers of precarious staff of public health
research, or IRCSS and Izs, a category held for decades in a condition of precarization, but you have removed it for lack of coverage. Hospital companies will then be able to continue to resort to tokenists, not only in hospital emergency-urgency services, as indicated in the initial text of the decree, but also in other departments, if necessary. For health a hard blow, while for fossil energy companies and for those who have evaded the taxes of Regions and local authorities this measure is a real favor", concludes Grimaldi.
"It is incomprehensible the choice to include in the so-called 'Bills Decree' a penal shield for large evaders. The crimes of non-payment for those who adhere to the tax truce are decriminalized, provided that the payments are made within the appeal sentence, with the usual excuse of meeting small taxpayers in difficulty.
But small taxpayers, artisans, traders, hardly accrue a debt, in a single year, of at least 250 thousand euros of VAT or at least 150 thousand euros of withholding taxes towards employees. Stop talking about taxpayers who declared and then had difficulty paying. The subjects you reward with this rule are white-collar workers, directors of large companies, who may have decided not to pay the taxes of their employees, and probably also their contributions". This was said by Emiliano Fenu, leader of the M5s group in the Finance Committee of the Chamber, announcing in the hall of Montecitorio the pentastellato no to the vote on the confidence placed by the government on the bills DL.
"Small businesses in difficulty have nothing to do with it. We are worried - he continued - because this government is showing itself to be a useless vehicle of some potentates, with rules that privilege a few, restricted and exclusive audiences, large system companies that have made great deals on the difficulties of Italians and that can continue to live quiet and undisturbed. Just think of the continuous request on our part to tax the extra profits of banks, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, arms industry: a request systematically ignored by the government".