Emma Bonino’s economic director, Alessandro Giovannini, Leaders in Tuscany: “Companies generate wealth, work and must be protected with fair taxation”
It’s the professor. From + Europe. And he chose a rather complicated historical moment in his first candidacy for parliament. “Yes, but I did it for this very reason,” says A Formiche.net. “To make my skills available to the country in a very difficult period for public finances.” Alessandro GiovanniniThe 60-year-old is from Tuscany, and is Professor of Tax Law at the University of Siena’s School of Economics. He is a party leader Emma Bonino In the relative council of the Livorno-Arezzo-Grosseto-Siena Chamber. Giovannini with Benedetto della Vidovais the economic brain of + Europa.
Professor, in this scenario of global uncertainty, between the war in Ukraine, expensive energy and expensive bills, where did you begin to set up the Europa + economic program?
Personally, I started taxing. Wealth is generated, principally, by corporations, which must ensure fair taxes, because they also ensure business. All this has a guest: the tax officer. Not just for rates, but Taxes has more eyes, uses more hands. It costs businesses tens of billions more in tax.
The United States of Europe: What will it entail from an economic point of view?
It will have significant repercussions especially at the financial level, and the implementation of a series of international treaties awaiting adoption by the European Union, such as the fight against international evasion and taxation of new economies. The political objective of the European Federation of European States will have the primary effect of creating a common tax system.
According to +Europe, Italy should sit at the French-German table on an equal footing. How can he do it?
Following the example of Mario Draghi’s government. It is necessary to restore strong international credibility, especially with regard to the holding of public accounts and investments in the real economy that can allow us to sit at the table of large corporations.
Exports, in the Italian economic system, are already a privilege. Can it be improved? If so, how?
Through another series of measures to support Made in Italy and by improving infrastructure. I am thinking of a great port facility. Thus, the possibility of more flexible movement of goods to other countries or to enter Europe thanks to the Italy platform. And in this case, we are talking more about import than export. And then, even in this circumstance, financial measures aimed at facilitating export investments will be required. Then there is the agricultural sector, which is often overlooked and forgotten, but essential.
For Italian debt, she proposes freezing public spending. What does that mean in detail?
As +Europe, we propose to review current spending, while reducing some elements, starting with bonuses and this large amount representing tax expenditures, amounting to 70 billion annually. We intend to reduce disguised social welfare expenditures, that is, they are not actually so, by providing, for example, a deep audit of the citizen’s income, with savings already estimated at 5 billion from 2023. We also propose a group in debt, unless directed at investment . Good debt, as Draghi calls it. Some interventions have already been anticipated by Pnrr, but others are missing, such as the completion of the Tyrrhenian motorway.
energy issue. As a first position on the organizing committee of the gas-to-gas plant in Piombino: why is it necessary?
Because it is a strategic action for national energy needs. It will make it possible to offset the import of Russian gas by 13% and will guarantee a series of new jobs, about 1100, and this is not a small matter. It will also guarantee a 7% share of the national energy needs. Preventing its implementation, which, obviously, will take place with all guarantees of the environment and safety of citizens, is contrary to the interests of the country.
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