Renzi pledges tax relief for families

(ANSA) - Rome, April 24 - Premier Matteo Renzi reiterated Thursday his government will devote "special attention" to relieving families' tax bills.
    Renzi made the renewed pledge to help families in a reply to a reader of the Catholic daily Avvenire.
    "We will dedicate ... special attention to the theme of taxation for families," the premier said, "it is urgent that one come up with answers that have been awaited in vain for too long". Renzi was replying to a reader of the daily who signed himself Stefano "husband and father from Rome" who said that he and his family would not receive a promised tax bonus at the end of May, thus underlining "a logic that penalises single income family units, almost as if the choice of one of the two (more often the Mum) to stay at home was in itself to be scorned". Renzi for his part reassured that the Government commitment was not limited to the promised 80 euro tax bonus but "is based on an idea of the future of the country, of the future of our children ranging from investment in school building to rigour over waste and privileges, to innovations that can revolutionise the civil service and to institutional reforms." "The 80 euros more to a part of the workforce was only an initial step," Renzi said.