MILAN – Italy is not a step backwards compared to what is proposed in the paper of Economics and Finance and Economy Minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, Luxembourg confirmed by the improvement in the deficit in structural terms will be ” only “0.1% of GDP. But sprouting rumors about a possible rejection of the maneuver that tomorrow, after the Council of Ministers scheduled for 15, will be sent to Brussels for the examination of the EU Commission. Meanwhile, the estimates come from Moody’s, which provides a contraction in GDP of 0.3% in 2014 and a marginal growth of 0.5% in 2015 The rating agency promotes Jobs Act, described as “significant action” and defines “solid” the budgetary position of Italy.
The minister, at the end of the Ecofin meeting, confirmed the line of recent times and has eased the path to return Italy to a balanced structural budget delayed 2017 A license, with respect to the time schedule specified by Europe, dictated by the economic downturn and the need to give breath to the Italian economy. On this, however, will consume a clash with the European Union, which according to sources quoted by Reuters may also send the item back to the Italian law to affix the necessary corrections.
In April when they were hired consolidation commitments (revised downward correction with a “discount” and 0.25%, from 0.5% of the Fiscal Compact), “The growth forecast was 1.1% higher of what we have today for 2015, the macroeconomic environment is highly impaired “, hence the slower speed of the consolidation, remember Padoan. “I am confident because our relations with the EU are very constructive, we use the flexibility in the rules and have an open dialogue with the Commission,” said Padoan.
All items that will end up in the maneuver from 30 billion that the CDM will launch tomorrow with the Stability Law , which promises to break with the recent maneuvers since it is oriented support to families and businesses with tax relief on income tax and IRAP. In the text of Stability, also, according to the resolution of the parliamentary majority made in the course of the note update Def, Jobs Act must be “included among the measures linked to public finance measures,” in which there must be the “ review the laws for municipal property taxes “. As anticipated Renzi, you should then go towards the unification of the charges related to the house.
Returning to the position taken by Padoan, the Minister relies on the fact that Italy is among the few countries of the Old Continent to respect the “pillar” of the 3% limit of the ratio between the actual deficit and Product: “The 3% limit is respected, we will below and we will go ahead with structural consolidation”, claims still Padoan.
With regard to the general scheme of maneuver, other elements were specified by the Secretary to the Presidency of the Council, Graziano Delrio, which is specified as part of the spending review entrusted to the Regions (4-5 billion), “the current budget of Health will not be touched, or rather you can reason about possible increases “. More hay in the barn to support expansionary measures comes from the “evasion”, while towards the EU “government is ready to respond to surveys,” but “object on a report at 2.9% would be a taste of fussiness obstinacy. ” The holder of Labor, Giuliano Poletti, suggests that there will be the chance to get to anticipate the severance pay in payroll : “It ‘predictable’. The advances of the maneuver, in particular for cutting IRAP 6.5 billion they gloat industrialists: “We realized our dream,” says the president of Confindustria, Giorgio Squinzi.
Moody’s promotes Jobs Act “is a significant initiative” . From the United States came the ratings agency Moody’s, which promotes the action of the government and in particular praised the Jobs Act, described as “a significant initiative” that makes the labor market in Italy “more flexible” although precise , “reform alone is insufficient to move from a centralized to a decentralized wage bargaining or to increase flexibility in the salary negotiations.”
The agency defines “solid” the budgetary position of Italy thanks to a significant “primary surplus” that allows you to have “favorable financing costs” and “more time to implement reforms to promote growth “. Moody’s estimates speak of a contraction of the Italian GDP by 0.3% in 2014 and growth of 0.5% in 2015
Agreement bodies-evasion Ecofin . Coming back to Ecofin, from which he spoke Padoan, the meeting of Ministers of Economy and Finance European Union has led to an agreement on the automatic exchange of information on tax matters in an anti-evasion: an agreement is reached at 27 system which will come into force in 2016, but without Austria who has called for a year to adapt. “Mark always to the end of banking secrecy in Europe,” explains European sources. In essence, today’s law was passed that allows the EU to adapt to the OECD standard on transparency for tax purposes. With this directive, the automatic exchange of information “buy the size as large as possible in Europe, higher than the revised Savings Directive imagined.” Among the EU financial agencies, therefore, will be exchanged, the information in tax matters on individuals, funds and entities, giving rise to “full fiscal transparency in the EU.”

