The Veneto regional government
will ask Italy's Constitutional Court to force the national
government to use money now funding a tax bonus for low-income
earners to instead shift those resources to regional and local
authorities, Governor Luca Zaia said Tuesday.
The money which Premier Matteo Renzi is using to fund his
program to give low-income earners a monthly tax bonus of 80
euros should be granted instead to underfunded governments at
lower levels, said Zaia, whose council passed a motion
authorizing the court application.
"It is too easy to create the (budgetary) cover by removing
money meant for the regions and municipalities," Zaia said of
Renzi.
Besides, the Renzi bonus excludes "the most needy, the
unemployed and pensioners," who are not part of the tax system
said Zaia.
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