It’s a Giorgetti-FI clash on the penal amnesty. And now the Colle watches over the norm

To understand what type of intervention it will be, for now we must rely on the concise anticipation given by the press release released by the government after Tuesday evening’s CDM: “Special causes of non-punishment of some tax crimes are envisaged“. In essence, it is a sort of penal amnesty, which provides for the exclusion of certain crimes for those who comply with payments to the tax authorities. The cases are as follows: omitted payment of withholding taxes for an amount exceeding 150 thousand euros per year; omitted payment of VAT for a value exceeding 250 thousand euros per year; undue compensation of receivables not due exceeding 50 thousand euros.

A number of “concessions” that are made to taxpayers which, however, according to at least a part of the majority should have been more generous. If it is true that the Forza Italia parliamentarians already in the discussion on the budget law had tried to widen the mesh of the tax authorities to introduce different forms of “pardon”, as the forzisti call them. Only that first the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, then now the Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, wanted to limit the application and extension of the amnesty, given that the oppositions have already come to define it “an unacceptable measure”, to put it with the words of the senator of the Pd Antonio Misiani. In short, they did not want to fuel tensions.

But beyond the political legitimacy of a measure that the majority had been aiming to pursue for a few months, the government’s apprehension lies in the type of response that could come from the Quirinale. Which now since the beginning of the executive Meloni has been monitoring some particularly important dossiers (see the seaside concessions, with the consequent relationship to be preserved with Brussels). But he was also categorical on questions of form: no to the abuse of the so-called omnibus decrees, in which everything and its opposite often end up. On closer inspection it seems to be the case with the bill decree just voted in the Council of Ministers.