Anti-euro, anti-immigrant
Northern League (LN) leader Matteo Salvini on Tuesday described
the 20-billion-euro 2018 budget approved by the government
Monday as "a grey budget from a grey government".
He said the package, which features tax breaks for hiring
young people and the renewal after 10 years of public-sector
contracts, "helped big firms as usual, and does not enter into
the merits of real problems".
"It didn't touch the (2011) Fornero law (upping the pension
age to 67), it didn't touch (personal income tax) IRPEF, it's
the grey budget of a grey government," Salvini told Radio
Cusano.
Other measures in the budget, which crucially averted a
scheduled big VAT hike, include incentives for creating roof
gardens in urban areas and new hirings of university
researchers.
A series of other taxes and levies originally expected were
also averted.
Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said Tuesday an IRPEF hike
may well come with the next government, if the centre left stays
in power.
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