In the tax area, the progressive front is always in big trouble. He is unable to propose any new idea other than the one that is now anachronistic in the age of the melon economy Fight against tax evasion. Voters don’t want that, and Prime Minister Meloni has interpreted this as pointing to new tax proposals that are substantial give up to this Italian tradition. As American entrepreneur Leona Helmsley said, “Only the mediocre pay taxes,” with a rather loose translation; The conviction was also consistently practiced, costing her a substantial conviction for tax evasion.
Always a loser and then a tax loser, like a dazed boxer locked in the corner? Maybe not. The usual thought of coming up with something new Bersani who remained one of the few voices in this area. When asked about the zero outcome of the recent and fake confrontation between Meloni and the unions, he responded to what was then considered an extravagant proposal by the radicals of Marco panel, and we won’t see anything completely new in the conservative area either. Responding to a question, Bersani said that if he had been a trade unionist, given that the prime minister is doing nothing to counter the gigantic tax evasion by the self-employed, he would have proposed balancing the bill Abolition of the labor withholding tax employees and retirees. For those who are not experts, the withholding administrator is the subject, usually the employer, who, by law, collects taxes and social security contributions each month on behalf of the employee or retiree. Employed and self-employed people calculate taxes and duties themselves and have a great deal of flexibility in doing so, as data has shown for at least a decade. This mechanism was introduced with the 1973 tax reform and can easily be changed.
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Bersani on La7: “Meloni says taxes are ‘head of state’? So let’s get rid of the withholding tax for employees.”
Why is Bersani demanding its abolition? Specifically, to write the paycheck heavier. Without this withholding tax, the salary of an employee or the income of a pensioner is lost would increase by 40-50% immediately. In fact, each month each would receive their entire share of the Irpef earnings and the social security contributions now paid. He would end up with a nice extra nest egg. Of course, this income must be expected in the following year Steer and contributions, just like the self-employed and freelancers are doing now. But then it is possible to use neurospeak, some tax planning The decision on the amount of the payment to the state is based on personal assessment. If we calculate a likely 70% drop in undeclared income, as is the case today for those who do not have a withholding agent, we can estimate a revenue loss for the state of $136 billion, assuming the Irpef receipts arrived in the year 2021 to 198 billion.
With Bersani, we observe that if Meloni is happy with more than 80 billion in tax evasion, he will be even happier if tax evasion increases by another 136 billion. Then when there will be some tax control, Not It is important. You can settle your debts with a small fine, the deputy minister’s friendly treasury officer, or you can invoke a state of emergency in times of harsh inflation. When the problem then arises of how to finance it Public serviceie health, education, security etc, no problem. Each citizen will pay their own hospital or school fees, just as they did in the United States a century ago or today. If the electorate does not want to finance the welfare state with taxes, patience. The people are sovereign and must be obeyed, even when making decisions that are clearly insipid from an economic point of view. With the abolition of withholding taxes, we will have a new Democratic Treasury officer, albeit downward. Since it is generally recognized that some categories of taxpayers do not want to pay taxes, it is also necessary on the left to move to Plan B, that is, to allow everyone, including pensioners and employees, to do so reduce them by somewhat manipulated self-declaration.
So a fiscal proposal with absurd contours? Maybe, but not so much. The Bersani Treasurer is in good company. In fact, the former parliamentarian was not the first to come up with this brilliant intuition. The abolition of withholding tax It’s one of the many ideas the league has put on paper in its recent tax reform proposal. The justification for his bill entitled “High payroll: abolition of withholding tax” states: “Withholding part of the remuneration in advance for reasons of tax compliance is ethically unacceptable!” The abolition of withholding tax would be a far-reaching reform, but not only from a business tax point of view, but also from a social justice point of view.”
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Bersani on La7: “Meloni doesn’t pretend to be the social right, he’s on the side of those who have more.” She refuses the checks because she wants to do the narrative on the Pnrr.”
If the left wants to win again, it must adapt to this new criterion of social justice: stop paying everyone to pay less. Instead, it would be better to abolish withholding taxes in order to pay less to everyone. A few million taxpayers are already doing it wonderfully, now it’s necessary expand consistently this opportunity to everyone. Then the fact that this point brings together a true left and the post-po league is a sign of their intrinsic goodness. Bersani gave with his tasty financial humor a sharp swipe to the left; Let’s hope that the progressive front will now strike a blow with concrete and popular proposals, both at the tax office and many others.