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In the program a global intervention in which experts participate. It confirmed the focus on progressivity and contrast with black.
by Marco Mobili and Gianni Trovati
In the program a global intervention in which experts participate. It confirmed the focus on progressivity and contrast with black.
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“It is not a good idea to change taxes one at a time.” On tax reform, the Prime Minister points a long way. Which aims at a total intervention to reach a “deep review of personal income tax”, consisting of “the rationalization and simplification of the rate”, capable of “gradually reducing the tax burden” by seeking resources for it in a “compromise renewed and reinforced in the fight against tax evasion “.
In his speech to the Senate on trust, the new prime minister indicated above all one method. Ambitious. Because it arises from the need to overcome the logic of the political emergency and the search for consensus, which in recent years has multiplied the sectoral, and often uncoordinated, adjustments of our tax system. Not sensational in results, given that Italy excels in Europe in terms of labor taxes.
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To summarize the idea of the method that he intends to impose on politics, Draghi points out two models: the first is Italian and dates back to the 1971 Visentini reform that in fact still governs the country’s fiscal architecture today. The second, on the other hand, is the Danish: in Copenhagen in 2008 an “expert commission” was appointed which, after a debate with the parties and social partners, presented to Parliament a project to reduce the tax burden by two points of GDP . with a cut to the last marginal rate and an increase in the exemption threshold.
Orienting Draghi towards the Danish horizon are not the specifics of that system, which also pushes Denmark to the top of the overall tax burden (46% of GDP). But it is a matter of method, based on an approach that requires “time and competence” and aims at an organic redesign of all the gears of a complex mechanism such as the tributary. However, the indication is not accidental because in the perspective of the new government, the tax reform will be closely linked to community requests that also link to the Recovery Plan. And that are based on alleviating the pressure on work, shifting the burden towards consumption and wealth and reforming the cadastre.
The key question, however, is methodological. Not necessarily to read with the stereotypical categories of the opposition between technicians and politicians. In fact, since the beginning of the year, Parliament began a complex analysis of the tax reform that involved important institutions and economists, and that until now had the interested participation of all political forces. “We make it available to the Government, stresses the president of the Finance Commission Luigi Marattin (Iv), applauding Draghi’s proposal.
