«No tax amnesties on the tax front. Procurement without tender? Conte had introduced them»- Corriere.it

In the bill decree “there is also a provision that adapts the penal provisions to our tax truce, there has been a lot of confusion, the opposition says that we have introduced a penal tax amnesty, it is false, we do not do amnesties”. Thus the premier Giorgia Meloni in her social column «Giorgia’s notes», which summarizes the most recent decisions taken by the government. The Prime Minister did indeed speak of greater economic resources for doctors in the emergency departments, more police officers to protect them in 200 hospitals “against intolerable aggressions”, of aid for the elderly, but it was above all the taxman who held court: “With the tax truce, installments are foreseen and we adapt this rule by establishing that the process remains suspended until the revenue agency says that you are paying the installments regularly”.

“We have approved the enabling law on tax reform in the CDM”, Meloni continued, «that among the types of regulatory instruments it is a kind of framework and we have a maximum of 24 months to complete it with the decrees that will be necessary. At the end of this work we will have a completely new tax system 50 years after the last reform made on this matter. In practice, the last tax reform that was made was made before I was born.’ «With this delegating law, the first and most important objective is to lower taxes for everyone, with particular attention to medium-low incomes, with a progressive reduction of the Irpef rates that we imagine to produce. We also want to simplify and obviously combat tax evasion but with the collaboration of taxpayers, instead of investing everything in harassment and repression”.

Still on the economic front, the prime minister spoke for 2023 an increase of 100,000 jobs “over 1l 30% more than in the same period of 2019 before the pandemic”. This would have been caused also thanks to the 53% decrease in energy prices, with consequent investments by companies. Another theme, the new procurement code, considered by the prime minister as the way “to make them works, do them well, fighting the robbery. Enough with the destructive nos: during the services conference, an organization expresses its disagreement with the realization of a work, it will also have to offer solutions and not simply say no». «The threshold for contracts without tenders at 150 thousand euros is the norm «of the M5S-led government of Conte II and confirmed by the Draghi government. We have only confirmed and made stable a rule that would otherwise have ceased in 2023. We have then added a point in favor of Made in Italy. In fact, among the evaluation criteria for the contracts there will be the quantity of Italian goods and services you use. I’m sure some people don’t like it, but we do.”

Turning to food, according to Meloni: «We are the first nation that has decided to ban the production of synthetic food, Italy is at the forefront: we were the first but who knows if someone doesn’t follow us», And, still on the subject of cooking: «Food produced from insects, we tell the citizens with a nice visible label, it will have to be indicated if there is insect flour». «Italian cuisine is a candidate for UNESCO heritage, I’m happy about it, we are a food superpower» because «we are threatened by large lobbies who would like to standardize everything».