Metropolitan cities with diversified cuts – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published April 24, 2015 at 06:35.

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More cuts in Bologna, Genoa and Milan to lighten the load of Florence, Rome and Naples. In summary this is the result of the proposal that mayors have sent yesterday to the government to try to resolve the issue of cuts in metropolitan cities which in recent weeks had heated confrontation between directors and Government, which led to the meeting two weeks ago Palazzo Chigi with the President of the Council.

The solution found by the technicians of Ifel-Anci, as pointed out by the president of the Association of Municipalities Piero Fassino, is “solidarity” in the sense that after some spark even within the world of local authorities the administrations that were less affected by the geography of the cuts decided in the State-City has become available to accept a fee of maneuver to help Florence, Rome and Naples. “Now we expect similar availability by the Government, to arrive within the next week to the political decision to launch the decree local authorities.” And here begins the unknowns.

The total amount requested metropolitan cities remains unchanged, as requested by the government, but the new allotment of the cuts still imposes a correction to the law of stability. The budget calls for a scissor distribute among provinces and metropolitan cities based on the “standard requirements”, that is the “right price” of the various local functions, and implementation carried out by the Government has applied the measure based on the ratio between ” cost efficient, “measured by Sose, and possibilities for each institution to collect revenue from the taxes on the car (additional TPL and IPT) and the environment. The proposal of the mayors, to make a little ‘less abrupt transition from the old to the new rules, instead mixes the “cost efficient” historical expenditure. To implement it, therefore, necessary that the Government is willing to partially mitigate the slogan of ” farewell to historical spending “waved in recent weeks.

In the yard of the local government decree, then, not are few issues still under discussion. One is the reduction of the super-sanctions in place for this year for those who have breached the Stability Pact in 2014: the idea, which is closely related to at least one third of the bodies of wide area, is already written on the understanding signed in February by mayors and government, but it must be put into practice with choices that have costs. The two steps consisting redistribution of cuts and easing of sanctions, are intertwined in glove, because lighter penalties would help to offset the additional close to the City took to the aid of Florence, Rome and Naples. Throughout the game, which also includes the Fund for deductions Tasi from 625 million, is in turn connected to the outcome of the negotiations between the Government and the Regions on cuts to health care, because even this chapter should end up in the decree local authorities: the rendez vous, however, has slipped to next Wednesday, and the agreement has yet to be found.

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