ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The history of taxes on extra profits is a history of failures: they distort investments and risk speeding up the deindustrialization of Europe”. So the Foreign Minister and leader of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, in an interview with the National Newspapers. “I am convinced that, as banks and insurance companies, oil companies must also make a contribution in times of difficulty. But the government method is the right one: dialogue and agreement with companies allowed to cover expenses until 5 September. An understanding is quite different from an extra profit tax,” adds Tajani. And about the concept of extra profit, Tajani says that “There is no. Who decides? A bureaucrat of the European Commission, one of the ministry? There is profit and taxes are paid on profits.” “But – Tajani explains – we can’t make hot ads or threats that scare markets and damage Italian companies. We must not strike them, starting with Eni: it would be a very serious mistake, it would end up repercussions on users and citizens.” Otherwise, the risk is that “The markets are frightened and competitiveness is lost, the proposals for angering the left seem more inspired by class hatred and social war than an economic operation. We liberals cannot think that every problem is resolved with a tax, following the socialist model of Sanchez”, he concludes. (ITALPRESS).
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