Hearing on today, October 7, 2024 Structural budget plan Before the Joint Budget Committees of the House and Senate. A number of themes were brought up by the various actors interviewed regarding the plan and, among them, some that emerged through the stands. Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces about Decrease in Irpef rate, 4 to 3, an operation that will have a significant impact on local authority budgets. The estimate for common-law territories is about one billion, while for special-law territories it is about 400 million.
Reduction in Irpef rates, serious impact on regions
“Give Reduction in Irpef rates from 4 to 3With the title of effects on additional Irpef, will have an effect on Regions For about one billion with general law and for regions with special law for about 400 million”, he said during the hearing on the structural budget plan. Marco AlparoneCoordinator of the Commission on Financial Affairs of the Conference of Regional and Autonomous Provinces. So, to make a simple addition, the impact of a cut in Irpef rates on local authorities as a whole 1.4 billion eurosIt is a figure that frightens local administrators to a great extent.
Marco Alparone added – “It is currently a frozen topic – but one that we should pay attention to Tax pressure What is done to the citizens? The reduction in rates from 4 to 3 has a very significant impact on local authorities and regions.”
A request for more funding for health care
The Coordinator of the Financial Affairs Commission of the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces also spoke on the subject. Health costsdescribing it as “fundamental to the regions”.
“There is no doubt – he said – that the ratio between expenditure and GDP is a ratio that we should try to keep as high as possible, so that 6.4% is our starting point in 2024. Health costs Our aim and request regarding 6.4% Increasing If we put more resources into the National Health Fund in regional health fund distribution, we believe that greater flexibility of use based on the needs of each region will allow us to optimize citizen response in the best possible way. We know – concluded Marco Alparone – that there is a desire to increase resources on health care costs”.
Downward revision of 2024 GDP
To complicate the government’s plans for the future Strategy 2025 This is also what was pointed out. Bank of Italy During the hearings, or in progress thereof Pyle i 2024 But will have to review. deficiencystalling at 0.8%.
“Within the framework of the provisions under the current legislation of the Structural Budget Plan (PSB)” – said the Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Bank of Italy during the hearing. Sergio Nicoletti Altimari. – GDP growth of 1.0 percent this year, 0.9 percent next year and 1.1 percent in 2026. A review of quarterly economic accounts published last Friday by Istat, which is not included in the framework, will provide a mechanical downward correction of two-tenths of a point. In the current year’s estimates, a chill for the executive Georgia MaloneyIt is already difficult to find the necessary coverage to warrant interventions.