Cashback 2022, final blow to the Italians: the decision is official

Cashback 2022, final blow to the Italians: the decision is official. The new government led by Giorgia Meloni will have clear positions

Reduction of the tax wedge, urgent measures against the increase in bills, overhaul of the citizenship income. These are just some of the hottest issues the 2023 finance law will have to address and it will be up to the new government led by Giorgia Meloni to do so. But what will Cashback 2022 do and are there any hopes of it coming back into fashion?

Cashback 2022, final blow to the Italians (Pixabay)

A first response came with the executive of Draghi who had sold State Cashback and Supercashback in the summer of 2021 without renewing it. If he recognized that the principle of reimbursement of part of the expenses (10% up to a maximum of 150 euros) was correct and also accustomed consumers to using forms of electronic payment, the advantage for the State was not there.

A measure of more than 4 billion euros that Draghi and his ministers have decided to use in other sectors. Then, however, last June, it seemed that the health cashback had been definitively launched, to immediately restore 19% of the expenses made in pharmacies and parapharmacies instead of deducting them from tax returns. Measure that it is on standby and we will soon understand if it will actually start from January 1, 2023.

Cashback 2022, final blow to the Italians: Giorgia Meloni’s ideas are very clear

What will happen to Cashback 2022 in the next few weeks, however, seems clear. Because one of the merits that everyone, even the opposition, recognized in Giorgia Meloni not only in the electoral campaign was his rigorous constancy. She has put forward the same ideas expressed several times in recent years and this for her and the Brothers of Italy has meant becoming the first party in Italy.

What did he specifically say about cashback? In March 2021, in the midst of revenue collection, it was clear: “The numbers on cashback and the unnecessary and ideological war on cash are a total failure. It is not possible to continue with the scratch and win economy, the 5 billion from the bankrupt cashless plan are immediately allocated to help companies”. Even more at the end of June of the same year: “The cashback will be ‘suspended’ from July 1st. Fratelli d’Italia was the only political force to make it clear right away that the cashback and receipt lottery is an idiocy that costs us 4 billion. An attempt to control the Italians in exchange for alms”. Giorgia Meloni has always spoken out against Cashback (Facebook)

So the cashback will not return, in any form whatsoever, even if Giuseppe Conte, questioned by Avvenire no later than three days later, hoped to rethink: “Even today, I cannot explain why the cashback was canceled with the stroke of a pen. . Was it necessary to renovate it? Completely agree. But abolishing it was an incomprehensible gesture in the face of a measure that allowed us to fight against the underground economy”.