Maneuver, tax deductions only for those who pay with cards and debit cards

After the general agreement on the maneuver reached at the end of yesterday's majority summit at Palazzo Chigi, other details on the measures emerge from the draft budget law. The news concern tax deductions, a new round of spending reviews and the addition of a provision for Quota 100 that will allow – reads the draft – to save 1.7 billion.

Tax deductions only for those who pay with cards and debit cards

To get all the 19% tax deductions starting from 2020, then for the 2021 declarations, the expenses must be "certified" with bank transfers or payments with debit or credit cards, reads the draft maneuver. Still on the subject of tax expenditures, an income limit is also set (120 thousand euros) beyond which the tax discount is reduced, to the point of zeroing over 240 thousand euros. Deductions for interest payable on loans are excluded while still considering whether to exclude health care costs for serious illnesses.

New spending review, based on attendance fees

The new spending review session envisaged in the 2020 maneuver will also involve, from next year, also emoluments and attendance fees that go to the members of the public administration and control bodies, excluding the companies. A new ceiling is also confirmed for intermediate purchases of goods and services that cannot exceed the average expenses incurred in the 2016-18 three-year period (excluding healthcare). It will be a decree of the Presidency of the Council, by June, to establish "criteria, limits and tariffs" of emoluments and tokens, excluding expenses reimbursements.

From 100 million 1.7 billion more savings in 3 years

News also on Quota 100. There is in fact a double freezing mechanism to guarantee the maintenance of the accounts: in fact, in the draft of the maneuver, in addition to the block of expenses for 1 billion, a specific provision is also added for Quota 100. In fact, for the next three years, other savings of 1.7 billion in total (300 million in 2020, 900 in 2021, 500 in 2022) are expected to guarantee equivalent resources. Two monitors are then scheduled each year, by 15 March and by 15 September, to free up the funds set aside once the savings are pursued.

Minister Costa: "The plastic tax must be reformulated"

The Environment Minister, Sergio Costa, meanwhile, asks for changes to the tax on plastics planned for the maneuver: "it must be absolutely reworked, there are compostable plastics that are an important reality for Italy and that go into compost". Taxes, he explains, "anything that is not recyclable makes sense. What is recyclable should not be taxed at all. We are talking about it, we certainly find a square."

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