“When I hear the word taxes, I get hives. There is no right to extra-profit. It’s a bad word, extra-profit”: Antonio Tajani, speaking at the Rimini Meeting, said this regarding the possibility of taxing the extra-profits of energy companies. “Against it? More than that, very much against it” because “it smacks of the USSR”, reiterated the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. According to him, in fact, “there are problems, but it’s not the government’s fault if the cost of oil increases, but they can be addressed by discussing and confronting with the industrial world, especially in the hydrocarbon sector.”
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As for the hypothesis of extra-profit, of taxes, “no, not even to talk about it – repeated the leader of Forza Italia -. I don’t want to hear the word extra-profit, which reminds me a lot of the Soviet Union. A contribution is right to be given, as we did with banks, with insurance companies. But there must be an agreed discussion in a difficult moment, also on the part of companies in the sector.”
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The debate ignited after the European Union shifted the responsibility of imposing these taxes to individual member states: “The taxation of extra-profits is a competence of the Member States, who can act on the basis of national legislation.” In recent days, however, Italy and five other countries, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Poland, and Spain, had asked the Irish presidency of the EU Council for a coordinated measure to redistribute the extraordinary revenues that oil companies collect due to high crude oil prices.
The leader of the PD, Elly Schlein, is in favor of taxing extra-profits: “The same person who promised to abolish fuel excises today stands by while Italians face soaring prices. Giorgia Meloni must do one thing: stop with stopgap solutions like the ridiculous 48-hour extension on excise cuts. They should put aside their pride and have the courage to tax the extra-profits of large energy companies to protect families and businesses, accepting our proposal. Italian families and businesses cannot continue to pay the price for the government’s inertia. There is no more time to lose. They must act now.”
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