Maneuver, a help to the family – The Center

ROME. The government engaged to compose the pieces of a Budget complicated by the difficult economic cycle refers to 2018, the reduction of the personal income Tax. But in the meantime, opens the construction site of the family quotient, and assumed that the bonus (ready on the plate 400 million) for households with at least two children who live in difficult economic conditions. “The family quotient at the moment does not exist, we are working on it and will have a signal in the law of Stability” has explained yesterday the premier Matteo Renzi, adding that “the theme of the rise of the Vat is totally averted”. One of the family quotient (a mechanism in force in some european Countries such as France) is a theme which is discussed without any result for at least 15 years. It is a system that aims to overcome the concept that it is taxed as an individual and replaces it with the principle according to which the family as a whole to be taken as a point of reference.

The reason for which the government, starting from 2017, intends to introduce a taste of the family quotient is, in fact, allow some of the hundreds of thousands of families to cash out the bonus from 80 euros. The bonus is reserved only to those who earn between 8 thousand and 26mila euro gross per year, that is, up to 1,500 euros net per month. But this mechanism causes the effects that Palazzo Chigi (and in vast areas of center of the majority that are pushing for the project), judging paradoxical. For example, says a source working on the dossier, a young man who lives at home with her parents and earns 1,200 euros a month, he perceives the increase in the payroll. As a father of a family who has a salary of 1,700 euros, but must keep with his salary, even his wife and children, will not be entitled to the Bonus Tax, because it exceeds the income thresholds established.

in order To remedy these inequalities, the government is therefore considering introducing a system of taxation that rewards the families. With the family quotient, in fact a family share all the income of its members and, once you have made the sum, the total income is divided by a coefficient, which depends on the number of members of the family. Example: if in the house there are only two spouses without children, the family income is divided by 2. If there is a dependent child, the compensation declared is divided by 2.5. If, instead, the dependent children are two, the coefficient is equal to 3 increases gradually, as the family becomes more numerous. After the division, is determined as the taxable income of the whole family, on which is calculated the income Tax. And, by the time that the tax is progressive, the more components there are in the family, the greater is the opportunity to enjoy lower taxes. As for the bonus families, the measure would be linked to Isee, the Equivalent Economic Situation Indicator that already allows for people on low incomes to access social benefits and public services at special conditions, as for example the already tested baby bonus or the gratuity of the school canteen. For the first year, the available resources would amount to at least 400 million and on the basis of the amount of coverage will decide the income threshold, still to be defined, within which to ensure the bonus. At the moment, the idea is to deploy a cheque for families is not just below the threshold of poverty (for which there are already specific forms of welfare), but in conditions of economic instability. In the meantime, the government prepares the maneuver, according to the secretary of the Treasury, Paola De Micheli, allow you to unlock 800 million of investment from the local authorities.

The law could arrive on the table of the council of ministers on Friday or Saturday next, prior to the expiration of the 20 within which to send the full text in the Parliament. Before then they must, however, be found to the problems still unsolved of the update Note of the Def.