Brain drain, FdI’s bill: “Facilitations and aid for those who decide to return and have three minor children”

On the eve of May 1st and the Council of Ministers which will approve the labor decree, the Brothers of Italy is aiming for the return of the brain drain, about two million skilled workers who, according to the Giorgia Meloni, working abroad would cause the Italian state to lose about 14 billion euros of investments per year. Presented in March, the FdI bill is currently lying in a drawer and for this reason the main majority party is now pressing for it to be assigned as soon as possible to a competent commission to examine it and start the discussion before arriving in the Chamber for voting.

The basic idea of ​​the provision, first signed by the parent company of FdI Thomas Foti, proposes to provide additional aid to “brain drain” who decide to go home and have at least three dependent minor children (even in pre-adoptive foster care). “Despite the incentives provided by the current legislation, from 2015 to today there are around fifty thousand skilled workers who emigrate from Italy every year – writes Foti in the introduction of the bill – contributing to the enrichment of the economies of foreign countries and causing a loss for the Italian State of 14 billion euros of investments per year.Our nation, in fact, loses more brains than it attracts: the latest figures from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation show that currently Italians residing abroad are about six million, of which a third, or about two million, are skilled workers and, therefore, human resources of high intellectual value”. Hence, therefore, the “need to provide for further concessions”.

For Brothers of Italy, the government must therefore adopt “some measures to support the birth rate and to extend the incentives for large families”, but also tax incentives “for highly qualified workers, teachers or researchers who choose or have chosen to transfer residency in Italy from abroad”. The option to extend access to the concessional provisions “may be exercised with a one-off payment of an amount equal to 3 per cent of the income covered by the concession, relating to the tax period preceding that in which the option was exercised” .