Support for the middle classes and families, especially large ones. These are the tracks on which the government in office would like to make its third budget move, but the issue, like never before with the new European budget rules that impose an annual ceiling on expenses, will be where to find the funds. For measures to increase the birth rate alone, it is not necessary to find even 5 billion, 1/5 of the overall endowment hypothesized up to now.
Two options are on the table: strengthening the single allowance for dependent children, for example by excluding it from the ISEE calculation, or introducing specific deductions with a percentage limit based on the number of children or available income and in this case the ceiling could fluctuate between 2 and 4%. Translated into numbers,. for those who declare €50,000 the tax discount would be between 1000 and 2000 euros. The objective remains to put in place further tools to stem the demographic crisis. A topic that also arrived today on the table of the meeting of European financial ministers in Budapest. For Minister Giorgetti it is a good thing that this emergency enters the Union’s agenda due to its implications in terms of productivity and growth.
