Confirmation of the Irpef exemption for incomes of up to 10 thousand euros and a 50% reduction in the tax for those between 10 and 15 thousand euros. This is the summary found by the majority about the new configuration of the agricultural income tax. After a week of peasant protests and hypotheses put on the table, of summits and counter-summits, the center-right finds its place. A solution that comes in the afternoon after a day more marked by “remote” meetings. On the one hand, the majority deputies who meet in the Chamber to take stock of all the issues still to be resolved relating to the Milleproroghe decree (including the modification of the agricultural income tax) with the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, and the undersecretary of the Mef Sandra Savino. On the other hand, “the meeting of the League called by Matteo Salvini with the party leaders to talk about the agricultural file,” says a note from the Northern League, which quickly seems to set the conditions for the agreement: “Increase the exemption from “Irpef (more than 10 thousand euros), approve the League’s proposal on the control of prices and production costs, accelerate measures to limit damage caused by wildlife.” These are some of the proposals that emerged during the summit chaired by Salvini, who explains that “we want to involve an increasing number of agricultural entrepreneurs, adding additional resources to those already proposed as hypotheses.”
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The League also reiterates “its clear opposition to Europe’s negotiations with South America. The agreement with the Mercosur countries, in which Brussels continues to work without real guarantees regarding compliance with standards similar to ours, would represent a danger for Italian producers with the arrival of “Our tables of products that do not offer the same guarantees as we do. And furthermore, there is still no global evaluation of the impact of these measures on our market. For the League, this is one more attempt to favor multinationals by harming Made in Italy.
The summary will arrive shortly. Majority parliamentary sources, while the Montecitorio meeting continues, announce that “Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and Deputy Minister Maurizio Leo, in close contact with Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, are preparing a government amendment on the Irpef issue.” As Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni anticipated during Friday’s meeting with farmers’ associations, the law confirms the “excess to exempt from payment agricultural and land rents of up to 10,000 euros”, to which is added “a reduction of 50% of the amount to be paid for rents between 10,000 and 15,000 euros.” According to the same sources, it is “a demonstration of the maximum commitment and closeness of the Meloni Government with the farmers in these 16 months. A result, higher than expectations, that certifies the achievement of a majority agreement, which is due to collaboration joint work of ministers Giorgetti, Lollobrigida and Ciriani and deputy minister Leo, who did everything possible to find the necessary resources to cover the costs of the measure.
“Great satisfaction with the government’s determination to review the provision on the Irpef, as Matteo Salvini had requested since last week,” say sources from the Northern League, explaining that “the reduction by half of the taxes that must be paid for real estate and agricultural income between 10,000 and 15,000 “One thousand euros expands the number of beneficiaries, as the League immediately requested. Now let’s continue with the battles in Europe, after too much damage from the EU Commission.” Forza Italia also talks about “a result that covers more than 95% of the sector’s taxpayers. Italian agriculture is an excellence of our country and deserves our maximum attention. Thank you therefore to the government that has shown sensitivity to our amendments and our requests,” says Italian national spokesperson Raffaele Nevi.
In the evening comes Prime Minister Meloni’s comment: “As far as farmers are concerned, they obviously understand the protests, because agriculture is in a very difficult situation in Europe. All of this has been affected by a series of madness – he adds – and if anyone thinks about saving the environment by doing it against the farmers, instead of with the farmers, they simply don’t know what they are talking about. It is clear that, to change all this, the next European elections will make the difference. and That’s what we hope to do.” Precisely regarding the protests, today the farmers protesting in Rome had another meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture. “We scored the first goal, we are happy but it is the beginning of a very long game,” says Salvatore Fais, leader of Riscatto Agricolo, upon his return to the via Nomentana garrison in Rome. “Now we will begin to demobilize but it will take time because with the rain the terrain is dangerous for vehicles” but “in any case on Thursday we will have a good lunch and we will leave,” he concluded. However, another hundred tractors will arrive in Rome, according to LaPresse, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. The agricultural vehicles will be parked in a private area in via Castel di Leva 371 in the Divino Amore district of Ardeatino. On Thursday the 15th in the morning two tractors will parade through the Coliseum. The protest was organized by the ‘Other Agriculture’ and ‘Popolo Productivo’ movements.