Il Democratic party he presents his tax counter-reform with great pomp under the banner of “redistribution and greater equity”. Elly Schlein has no doubts: “If we have to lower taxes on work and businesses, we need to intervene on annuities and capital income, where the rates are lower. We need to make the tax system more equitable to provide a future for services for citizens”.
The national secretary of the Democratic Party illustrates her own political proposal, which includes – among the various elements – a dual personal income tax on the German model, a cut in the tax wedge and a rationalization of incentives. All points which were then translated into amendments presented to the Chamber of Deputies, where the delegation to the government on tax reform is being examined. But the most “succulent” surprises arrive towards the conclusion of the presentation and, even if not expressed so explicitly, they are equivalent to two classic leftist recipes: the patrimonial and new house taxes.
The tax counter-reform of the Pd
According to the press conference of the former MEP, the intention of the dem – as far as Irpef is concerned – is to eliminate the special and replacement regimes and organize the income tax in a dual perspective: all work income and for those deriving from the use of capital, a single rate. Replacement of the current brackets and rates with a progressive “continuous rate” system (German model), use of the higher revenues deriving from the revision of Irpef deductions and deductions to reduce the burden only on subjects who pay that tax.
With reference to IRES, on the other hand, the proposal provides for the rationalization and stabilization of incentives for investments, training, research and development, employment, the South, and confirmation of the SuperAce (also to encourage the capitalization of businesses and not only the non-distribution of profits). After the chapter relating to the fight against evasion and erosion and amnesties, then comes Schlein’s backlash: the land registry reform. The Democratic Party would like to introduce the related reform, with reference to the market values of real estate, by canceling existing multipliers, guaranteeing revenue parity and redistributing the revenue among taxpayers without increasing the overall burden.
Schlein returns with an obsession with home and assets
All this means, net of the convoluted circumlocutions, that the movement that leads the patched-up coalition of the center-left – awaiting the militant summer – would like to propose a property, then going on to intervene directly on real estate properties. After all Elly Schlein she has always been very forthright from this point of view in all these months in which she is holding the position of leader of the Nazarene. Speaking at the Trento Economic Festival last May, he had explicitly declared: “The European Union is also telling us that the land registry reform must be done immediately”, adding that it was necessary “to take steps to make it more equitable and progressive the system”.
The tax on brick it should therefore be increased, even with the “reform of the cadastre in a more equitable sense”. In common parlance, Schlein’s concept remains the same: to reduce taxes on workers and entrepreneurs, the solution is not to cut public spending, but to squeeze even more property owners. And to think that in the motion with which he won the race for the secretariat of the Democratic Party in February, in which the word “cadastre” did not appear at all. With today – we must acknowledge it – there has been a step forward. Or backwards: it depends on your tastes.