Premier Giuseppe Conte said
Friday opposition leader Matteo Salvini's sally against the
government's tax-wedge cut was "facile irony".
"Salvini is making facile irony", Conte told journalists in
Assis where he signed a pact on fighting climate change.
Earlier Salvini said "Conte's fiscal revolution amounts to
just 46 euros a year" for workers.
Conte replied that the bonus would be much higher.
He said the government had put three billion euros into this
year's budget to plump wage packets.
Ruling Democratic Party (PD) leader Nicola Zingaretti said
earlier that cuts to the labour-tax wedge approved by the
cabinet late on Thursday will benefit around 16 million workers
in Italy.
The measures, which will help people on salaries of up to
40,000 euros a year, include an increase in an existing tax
bonus for low earners from 80 euros a month to 100.
"Finally things are starting to change," Zingaretti said via
Twitter.
"The salaries of 16 million Italians are increasing.
"We are moving forward, working for Italian families and
firms, for the growth of our country".
Premier Conte expressed satisfaction too, saying the
measures were "concrete deeds" before this weekend's regional
elections in Emilia-Romagna and Calabria.
The cabinet also set aside 28.4 million euros to address
damage caused by extreme weather in Emilia-Romagna and 345
million for areas of central Italy hit by earthquakes in recent
years.
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