In the morning the Budget Commission has resumed work on the financial measure, after yesterday’s night marathon did not exhaust the examination of the amendments. The hearing in the chamber for approval is scheduled for tomorrow, with the Government’s final objective of obtaining the definitive green light for the maneuver before Christmas.
In the evening the works of the speakers of the Budget Commission led to the approval of some important amendments. The equalization of the salaries of non-parliamentary ministers and undersecretaries to those of their colleagues is skipped. This is a point on which the opposition had gone on the attack. Last morning the Minister of Education, Giuseppe Valditarahad already announced that he would give up the “bonus”, while in the evening, on Xthe Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto he had declared “it is absurd to leave even just one second more space for controversy. For this reason we asked the rapporteurs to withdraw the amendment.” The reformulation of the speakers at the maneuver now provides for non-parliamentary ministers and undersecretaries who are not resident in Rome only a reimbursement “of travel expenses for the performance of their functions”.
The 1.8% increase in motorway tolls for 2025 is also skipped. The increase, corresponding to the inflation index programmed in the “Structural Budget Plan 2025-2029”, was withdrawn after the Government’s invitation to the budget rapporteurs to proceed in this direction.
The green light also arrived for the amendment presented by 5 Star Movement which removes tax breaks for fossil fuel boilers. In other words, from next year no more deductions for energy requalification work or the purchase and installation of gas boilers. In fact, this represents a first step towards the transposition of the European directive on green homesthe law that defines the rules for the energy requalification of buildings throughout Europe between now and 2050, against which Italy had given a negative opinion.
Among the other amendments approved last night is the creation of a fund for the psychological support service in favor of male and female students, with a financial allocation of 10 million euros for 2025 and 18.5 in 2026. An increase from 25 to 30% in the tax exemption limit for tips that staff working in bars or restaurants receives from customers. The green light was also given to the creation of a fund to unlock the salary of the internship for healthcare specialists.
20 million euros in publishing funds have also been released for “interventions to support the sector” with resources “provided by the Single Fund for pluralism and digital innovation in information and publishing”. An intervention that the text of the amendment justifies “in consideration of the economic effects deriving from the exceptional increase in production costs and in order to support the demand for information”.
The support fund for Ilva related companies is also arriving. The change made during the Budget Commission in fact, it provides for the creation of a fund in the “forecast” of the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, with an endowment of 1 million euros per year for the three-year period ’25-’27. These resources will be allocated to small and medium-sized enterprises supplying goods or services connected to environmental remediation or functional to the continuation of the plants’ activity Ilva.
An amendment to the Alloy which introduces a bonus for the purchase of household appliances highly energy efficient to replace obsolete appliances. The contribution may correspond to a maximum of 30% of the cost of the appliance and to an extent not exceeding 100 euros per appliance, which will rise to 200 in the case of a family unit with ISEE under 25 thousand euros. The contribution will be usable for only one household appliance.
Finally, a fund is created within the Ministry of Economy and Finance to combat the illegal recruitment of foreign labor “with particular reference to the irregular employment of guests of reception centers”. The fund will have an endowment of 500,000 euros for both 2025 and 2026.
