The Cashback program, which officially began on January 1 after the experimental month of the Extra Cashback of Christmas, was for three quarters until June 2022. But the second semester, which should have started on Thursday 1 July with the same rules, will no longer exist. The reimbursement program was suspended from the control room held yesterday at Palazzo Chigi: the measure thus became a flop. Even if the numbers up to now had been encouraging: reached 8.9 million citizens, who joined with a total of 784.4 million transactions and 16.4 million payment instruments activated.
To defend the maneuver remained the Five Stars movement, who does not mince words: «The suspension of the cashback mechanism is a serious mistake. It has stimulated the use of the Io app, encouraging digitization, and has allowed over 6 million Italians to receive up to 150 euros as a bonus for electronic payments made – declare the pentastellates in the Finance Committee in the Chamber – The incentive has had a huge response, especially among young people and it is a measure that pays for itself. Consumption data would have reached 14 billion by the end of 2022 with 2.5 billion in new revenues for the state and without introducing any new tax ». The M5S Head of Delegation also echoed the apology in defense of cashback Stefano Patuanelli on the sidelines of the European Council in Luxembourg: «The suspension of cashback is a mistake, I said and repeated it yesterday in the control room. I hope we can go back on this decision ». In the note of the Movement, also the attack on other parties: “In fact, one unexpectedly chooses to go back to the past, instead of supporting an anti-evasion program that is working – continues the note from the Five Stars – This battle, obviously, does not it interests other political forces, accustomed to filling their mouths with the fight against tax evasion without ever going to the facts. We hope that the decision taken in the control room will be reversed ».
The one who declares victory for the decision in the control room, on the other hand, is Giorgia Meloni: “The cashback will be” suspended “from 1 July – said the party leader, who remembers – Fratelli d’Italia was the only political force to say clearly immediately that cashback and receipt lottery are an idiocy that costs us 4 billion. An attempt to control the Italians in exchange for a handout. Now the Draghi government has arrived. The nearly 2 billion saved are now destined for businesses and workers affected by the crisis and closures, as I asked the premier to do in a letter sent on March 3. How it should have been in a normal nation. ” Many senators and deputies of Brothers of Italy e Come on Italy they indicate the new way: reinvest the cashback solids to businesses, also attacking “the rush of thousands of crafty men intent on splitting the same payment into several operations to be entitled to the maxi final repayment”.
«They were supposed to stop the layoffs and instead blocked the cashback – that’s the cause that brings to light Italian left with the national secretary Nicola Fratoianni – They had to listen to the workers’ unions and so far they have ignored them. From the Pd, on the other hand, another defense to the measure: «I do not agree with the decision to suspend the cashback for the next semester. It is one thing to correct what did not work in the mechanism, it is quite another to suspend it. I hope there is room to review the decision taken yesterday by the control room that met at Palazzo Chigi, ”said the deputy Michele Bordo, head of the Democratic Party for Cohesion and the South.