Florence, September 17 (askanews) – The decree on car tax "speaks of a compensation of €2.2 billion, when in reality the tax currently brings in €7 billion in revenue to the Regions, much of which is then allocated to healthcare." Tuscan President Eugenio Giani said this while speaking to journalists in Florence. "It was announced that the tax would be cut, but in reality, it is being cut by some.
The tax measure remains absolutely in place,” Giani continued, “and even the decree, touted as some kind of Copernican revolution, suspends the car tax for only one year. This happens to be an election year, so it's such a superficial and populist electoral marketing ploy that it will simply cause damage.” “Consider that,” Giani continued, “when you read the decree, the financial coverage for every measure that impacts spending will be found in the funds of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan earmarked for investments.
So it's essentially a European expenditure for investments in the current budget." "It's unconstitutional, and we need to see what the European Commission thinks. In short, a highly demagogic operation has been carried out, but in reality, from a substantive point of view, it reflects on cuts to healthcare services." Regarding the potential consequences for the healthcare system, "I'm convinced we'll have to do everything we can because, based on the text approved by the government, which we learned about yesterday from the news agencies—I've only had a friendly look at the approved text—it still has to be in the Official Journal, so we're reading the drafts.
From now until the moment of conversion, I hope there will be a return to a sense of good governance, not to the sense – concluded the Tuscan governor – of taking a measure in an election year simply to superficially procure votes”.
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