The thirteenth decree to finance the cut of excise duties only on diesel has been approved, and the government is beginning to think about a way out of the tunnel of generalized discounts. After the ten-day extension decided on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, the executive is looking at September 6, when the extra VAT revenue from August will be available and the return of mobile excise duties can be evaluated. But the second in charge of the fight against high fuel prices is now looking at more targeted interventions. Among these, in recent hours, the idea of a gasoline bonus in the paycheck, deductible by the employer as a business expense through fringe benefits, is gaining ground within the majority. “If the crisis should last at this scale,” explained Marco Osnato, head of Economy of Brothers of Italy, yesterday, “a selective evaluation will be made. One possibility is employer gasoline vouchers, through fringe benefits. I believe it was a good intuition by Deputy Minister Maurizio Leo.”
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Along the same lines, Forza Italia opposes the idea of helping Italians through the “Dedicated to you” card, which today is granted to just under 1.2 million people: “As a former mayor,” said the national head of the blue Departments Alessandro Cattaneo, “I warn against interventions on the social card” because “the only way to determine income is the ISEE, and 80% of the resources go to foreigners. It seems to me an unfair and ineffective system.” A point of view that is also shared by the League representatives.
In short, the orientation is to proceed through no longer generalized aid, as confirmed yesterday by the Minister of Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, on the sidelines of the event “La Piazza” taking place in Ceglie Messapica. “On the front of high fuel prices, more selective evaluations are being discussed, therefore on a sector or on brackets.”
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In the background, the overview of the six months of oil crisis linked to Hormuz returns the image of a country divided on price increases, especially diesel. To the disadvantage of the South, which with four Regions leads the ranking of increases: Sicily (+45.3 cents per liter), Campania (+45 cents), Apulia (+44.9 cents) and Calabria (+43.9 cents). The first non-southern Region in the ranking is Tuscany, where a liter of diesel costs on average 43.8 cents more than last February 20.
However, the biggest increases do not coincide with the most expensive distributors. Or at least not exactly. Because the highest prices overall are those of the Province of Bolzano (2.184 euros per liter) and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (2.158 euros), where diesel has been expensive for months due to the complexity of the distribution network.
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