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Giorgia Meloni hablando ante micrófonos en una rueda de prensa en Roma, con las banderas de Italia y de la Unión Europea detrás
Giorgia Meloni durante la presentación de la ley de presupuestos de 2027 tras el Consejo de Ministros. · Imagen generada para EPM

Meloni presents a EUR 26 billion budget centred on youth and families

According to Meloni's presentation, the Council of Ministers approved the 2027 budget law worth about EUR 26 billion, with an IRPEF cut up to EUR 55,000…

--- The context --- According to Giorgia Meloni's presentation, the Council of Ministers approved the 2027 budget law, her Government's fifth, worth a total of approximately EUR 26 billion. She said its guiding philosophy is again to focus resources she described as limited on the same priorities pursued over the last four years: families, the birth rate, cutting taxes, protecting purchasing power, employment incentives, business incentives and citizens' health. --- The facts --- According to her account, the law confirms all the measures in the previous budget that would otherwise have expired at the end of the year, a package worth around EUR 9 billion. Among them she listed the tax credit for investments in the Single SEZ for the South, the 1% tax rate on productivity bonuses, the bonus for working mothers and the 120% super-deduction on labour costs, summed up as the idea that the more you hire, the less you pay. She also confirmed, as she listed them, the abolition of IRPEF for farmers, duty reductions on agricultural diesel worth around EUR 1 billion and the 5% rate on increases arising from the renewal of national collective bargaining agreements, a measure she said had encouraged renewals for more than 4.25 million workers. On IRPEF, Meloni announced that the upper threshold for the second bracket at 33% rises to EUR 55,000, meaning a benefit of up to around EUR 500 per year. To illustrate the full path she said those who earned EUR 55,000 paid EUR 16,550 when her Government entered office and now pay around EUR 15,350, a benefit of EUR 1,200 per year, or EUR 100 per month. She added that the flat-rate scheme for the self-employed rises from EUR 85,000 to EUR 100,000 and that there will be no vehicle tax on cars of up to 80 kW, about 70% of vehicles in circulation. For people under 30 she presented an incentive of EUR 2,500 taxed at 1%, payable as 12 monthly instalments or as a one-off payment. The Piano Casa housing plan, she recalled, aims at 100,000 homes over ten years, and the law cuts the flat-rate tax on agreed-rate rentals from 10% to 5%, and to 1% if the tenant is under 35. On families, she explained that parental leave paid at 80% gains one further general month, rises to up to 5 months for a second child and to six months from the third child, and that INPS will open an account for each newborn with an initial EUR 100, available at 18. For the South, the SEZ allocation rises to up to EUR 2.4 billion, and the new Energy Release scheme for small and medium-sized companies receives EUR 1 billion. On health, she announced that the national healthcare fund rises by EUR 3.4 billion to EUR 146.3 billion in 2027, and a social voucher of EUR 300 for people over 75 with a pension of up to EUR 28,000, which by her figures reaches 5.5 million people and costs EUR 1.6 billion. For pensions she set aside a fund of EUR 850 million. --- The positions --- The Government's position, as Meloni framed it, is that the law is not against anyone and that in a complex time those with fewer problems are asked to help. According to her presentation, around EUR 5 billion will come from a contribution from the financial sector, with an exemption of EUR 90,000, around EUR 700 million from energy companies and another EUR 700 million from gambling, while cuts to ministries' spending provide around EUR 1 billion. --- What remains unknown --- Her own presentation left fronts open. Meloni acknowledged that the details on pensions need to be worked on above all during the parliamentary debate, and that the VAT side of the flat-rate scheme needs authorisation from the European Commission, with a year to negotiate it. --- Unanswered questions --- How many families will actually feel the IRPEF cut, and at what income will the maximum benefit land? Will European authorisation for the self-employed VAT scheme arrive before the negotiating window closes? Will agreed-rate rent taxed at 1% for tenants under 35 bring empty homes onto the market, or will it remain an incentive without enough supply? What final shape will pensions take once the parliamentary debate ends? --- EPM analysis --- Read on its own terms, the presentation puts its social emphasis on young people, families and older citizens: youth employment taxed at 1%, housing with a tax reward for renting to people under 35, stronger parental leave, an account for newborns and a EUR 300 voucher for people over 75. The other side is delivery: several pieces depend on European negotiations, on the parliamentary debate or on landlords responding to the incentive. The funding rests on asking for around EUR 5 billion from the financial sector and hundreds of millions from energy and gambling, an architecture the presentation defends as solidarity but which still has to become concrete rules. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the worth of this budget will be measured less by the announced list than by its real arrival among young people, families and older citizens. The EUR 2,500 incentive, rent taxed at 1% for tenants under 35, extended parental leave and the EUR 300 voucher all point to concrete and recognisable problems. But the presentation leaves European authorisation, pension details and the housing market's response still pending. Without those three closures, the law risks promising relief where it is most needed and delivering less than announced. The reasonable demand is not distrust on principle, but to follow each measure until the money, the rule and the beneficiary meet in the daily practice of Italian households.
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