Premier Matteo Renzi said Monday
that this week's budget will include some 30 billion euros in
new measures and adjustments, including 18 billion in tax cuts.
He made the pledge in comments to the Confindustria group
of large industrial employers in Bergamo, where he also promised
that employers who hire new staff next year on permanent
contracts will be given a break on some tax contributions for a
three-year period.
He also said he would cut 6.5 billion euros from the IRAP
regional business tax.
"We will abolish the labor component of IRAP as of 2015,"
the premier said.
He also urged listeners to "set ideological and cultural
divisions aside and give not us but Italians a hand".
Renzi was met with jeers from a delegation of workers in
factories organized by unions, particularly the Fiom.
Trade union federations have organized demonstrations for
October 25, to be followed by a general strike, to protest
Renzi's reforms to labour laws in Italy.
They are especially opposed to measures that would reduce
job protections currently set out in Article 18 of the 1970
Workers' Statute.
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