Crolla income of workers: -8mila euro for families – rassegna.it

Crolla income of workers: -8mila euro for families – rassegna.it

Investigation of Fisac ​​CGIL. The family disposable income between 2000 and 2013 showed a loss of about € -8312 for the families of workers, compared to a gain of EUR 3,142 for those professionals and entrepreneurs

The national contracts from two thousand to the present day have been a bulwark against inflation but not strong enough to hold up the conjunction, the tax burden and low productivity. The family disposable income between 2000 and 2013, in fact, a loss of about € -8312 for the families of workers, compared to a gain of EUR 3,142 for those professionals and entrepreneurs. The taxman’s ax has fallen on wages resulting in “a real collapse” if the tax burden on labor income in 2013 was still that of 1980, the net monthly salary would be equal to about € 1,600 instead of little more than 1,300. He would not have created such a loss of about € 300 per month, equivalent to about € 3,500 more in taxes paid by workers per year. And ‘what emerges from the report on wages dell’Isrf Lab – cared for by the general secretary of the CGIL Fisac, Agostino Megale, in collaboration with Nicola Cicala – titled’ Poor wages’.

The text (which will be presented on Monday at the party de ‘The Unit’ Bologna by the same Megale and the chief economist of the Democratic Party, Filippo Taddei) analyzes the different and intertwined dynamics that are reflected on the salary of the crisis and its causes to the weight of taxation and inflation through the low productivity of ‘system’, all from the issue of inequality in income distribution. Taking into analysis “the years of the outbreak of the crisis,” or the four years between 2010 to 2013, the report of the institute’s research shows that Fisac ​​”accumulated actual inflation was 9.1% compared of negotiated wages rose by 6.9%, net of taxes, are reduced to 6%. ” There has been so in the past four years a deadweight loss equal to -3.1%. “Wages ‘hold’ inflation but suffer the burden of taxes and the lack of growth of the productivity of the system,” said Megale.

As regards, however, the current year, the forecasts of the study, in the light of the “positive tax reduction of 80 euro”, attest to an increase in net earnings of 2.6%, the result the effects of inflation amounted to 0.3% at year-end, a negotiated wage growth of 1.6% and 80 euro for lower taxes decided by the government for 10 million workers under 1,500 euro per month. With regard to the ‘question of wages’, a central theme in past and ongoing relationships payroll products by Megale, the study records this year as “The average monthly net salary of an Italian worker in 2013 amounted to EUR 1,327. Those who earn, while working less than a thousand Euros per month varies between six and seven million people. A young graduate precarious if all goes well, however, on average ranges between 800 and 1,000 € per month up to thirty-five years. While over seven million pensioners receive less than € 1,000 per month. ” And if the net wage stood at just over € 1,300 per month, compared with that of a German worker is merciless: the latter, as highlighted in the study, “earns an average of 6000 euro in more than a year “.

Among the most affected by ‘wage question’ There are young people. Megale complaint in the report, in fact, “as a young 70s earned an average of 10% more than the national average, in the years of crisis instead he takes home 12% less.” Inequality, as is clear from the report, is the result of a “progressive inequality” long term, “In 1970, a manager earned twenty times more than a worker while today we get to peaks that exceed two hundred and fifty times. Inequalities that are substantiated by the analysis that is done in the text of tax where it is noted that “more than 15 million employees earn little more than € 1,300 net per month on average. Of these, about 7 million of them earn less than 1,000. The income declared most are those from employment and pensions, both in terms of frequency (86%) of that amount (78%), while those from self-employment constitute only 4.20%. In addition, 27% of taxpayers, equal to 11 million people, pay zero income tax to the IRS, 50.8% said less than 15,000 Euros a year and 40.4% declare incomes between 15 and 30 thousand euro per year “. Also of note was, according to reports from the payroll report, in the light of analyzes carried out on data from the Ministry of Economy, that 0.9% of taxpayers declare income in excess of € 100,000 per annum. To close then, a total of 90.9% or 37 million of taxpayers declare annual earn less than 35 thousand euro. This is just to stand in the category of workers.

Moving to retirees, however, the data from the study show that more than 7 million earn less than one thousand euro net per month, a portion of the total number of holders of pension benefits amounted to almost 16.8 million. But it is especially in the comparison between the salaries of employees and remuneration of top managers who becomes glaring inequality. The average wage of the first in fact, stood at € 28,593 per year while traveling on the remuneration of the second 6.5 million euro. A distance that is embodied in this reported by Megale: for an employee takes an average of 225 years, then “well over two centuries,” to earn as a top manager collects in a year. In this inequality also engages a tax issue. The report estimates that if the tax burden on labor income had remained that of 1980, the net monthly salary would have amounted to an average of € 1,616 instead of 1,327. Thus, a loss of about € 290 per month on average approximately € 3,500 more in taxes paid by workers each year.

Finally, with regard to productivity, the report says: “There is no doubt that we have a productivity problem that characterizes our production system. Compared to Germany we discount a differential of more than 25 percentage points accumulated over the past 15 years. Action should be taken to encourage the growth in size of enterprise and, in this way, productivity is vital for the country and must be addressed through a programming them to set targets for recovery. ” If these are numbers that describe the status of wages, Megale also analyzes the underlying causes: “The problem of our economy – he says – is the contraction of investment, both public and private: while the state is to deal with budget constraints, banks have reduced from 2011 to today’s 63 billion euro credit granted to households and businesses. ” Weight of taxation, inequalities in income distribution, poor productivity of the system: these nodes to be addressed according to the number one Fisac, from the renewal of national contracts still open and involving 8 million people, from overcoming the block to the public to the renewal of the bank. To address the issue Megale, therefore, proposes “an action of the unitary trade union as part of an alliance with the best forces in the country to address the nodes of the crisis” and that it should find an outlet in a “round table discussion with the Government: a pact, alliance, call it what you want, but which is similar to what we did in ’93 with the Ciampi government. ” A recipe consists of four lines of action centered on growth, equality, employment and innovation.