There is further confusion about the Growth Decree as it is now being reported that it will remain in place for ‘sports workers’.
SportMediaset and La Gazzetta dello Sport reported earlier today that the decision has been made to bring the Growth Decree to an end, and it will not just apply from the next transfer window but also to signings made from 1 July 2023 onwards.
However, Calcio e Finanza are reporting that the scrapping of the tax relief scheme should not concern professional athletes. Everything revolves around the sentence contained in the statement released by the Government at the end of yesterday’s Council of Ministers.
“The provisions already foreseen for researchers, university professors and sports workers remain unchanged,” it states.
As Calcio e Finanza learned from sources in the Ministry of Sport, in fact, the sentence in the press release means that the rule will remain valid as it is currently valid today. Therefore, there is no ceiling on incomes of €600k per year for football players.
The rule, modified in 2019 to also include professional athletes, provides tax advantages for those who move their residence to Italy, as long as they have not had a residence in Italy for two years prior and will stay in the country for two years.
Concern still remains high in football circles, so much so that discussions are already underway between the leaders and politicians with the aim of having a parliamentary path that can guarantee the maintenance of the Decree.
This is also why the issue will be further explored by the Lega Serie A in various meetings starting tomorrow, precisely to try to avoid the cancellation of the rule.
The push remains strong from those who would like the Growth Decree to be canceled anyway, such as the Assocalciatori led by Umberto Calcagno.
“I continue to hope that it will be eliminated, it is an extremely unfair rule and we will continue to fight for it to be cancelled,” he said.
Good news! Serie A has been on the rise ever since the growth decree was put in place. Would be stupid to cancel it now…
How have we been on the rise?
Have we won anything in Europe?
I think you’ll find the last time an Italian team won a European competition was in 2010 before the growth decree came in (and when the 20 Serie A teams engaged in fewer than 1,000 transfers per transfer window).
Perhaps cause we reached all 3 finals last year an ALL European competitions?
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bruh roma won the 2022 conference league.. eventho it’s just a third rate european competition.
The eule is fine.
They attract more high income paid players from abroad, who pays different other taxes only for living in Italy.
Cancellation of Growth decree rule.is shooting in its own leg because there is no club who can pay more tax on big salary.
May it will be the only way to push Ac Milan recruiting Italian and serie talent
Notwithstanding tonight’s result, the Italy squad over the last two games included 6 of our former players, and the Euro winning squad had six of our former players.
Many of those players would’ve solved problems we’ve been attempting to solve on the transfer market every single transfer window go back the past 15 years.
Had we just not buried Darmian under a body of pointless signings he’d have solved our full back problem for the past 15 years.
We didn’t need to sign a single full back in that period because we had De Sciglio, Calabria and Bellanova. The only full back we have signed in that period that was worth writing about is Theo. We also signed Constant, the mystery that is Didac Villa, Vangioni and we managed to turn Rodriguez from one of the most coveted full backs in the world to mid table fodder.
Acerbi could’ve saved us endless pointless CBs.
Milan signed three CMs this summer, ‘discovered’ another in Adli, and relied on Krunic who is currently negotiating hard on a contract, and all the while Cristante and Locatelli could’ve been approaching their 10th and 5th years at the club.
Bonaventura and El Shaaraway, who remarkably both stopped getting my injured the minute they left Milan, could’ve provided solutions for the past 5 to 10 years as well.
We’d have a base of about 6-7 players and could’ve used the money to sign truly world class players.
We’ve wasted over a billion euros on players in that period and have one Scudetto to show for it.
No amount of tax breaks are going to help clubs if they spaff money away on endless pointless signings.
well said
Repost, not sure it went through the first time
Most of if not all the of the players you mentioned here had terrible form when they played for us or were on the decline. Are you expecting that we wait 5-10 years before we see any returns on how well these players can be??. Take Acerbi for instance. He was slower than Montolivo when he was with us and I’m not being exaggerated here. And he had poor form. His upturn in form didn’t come until Sassuolo and then Lazio …a whole 6 years after he played for us. You want us to wait 6 years for a player to magically figure it out? Elsha is a good backup but that’s about it, he’s not Leao level. Jack was nearing the end of his career. The only one I’d like to stay was Darmian. Cristante didn’t exactly shine with us but I’d agree we could have given him a chance . Otherwise he isn’t exactly stellar for Roma is he? And we still dont know what his best position is. He’s another one that took 6 years to land a starting spot in a big team. Locatelli is a Juve fan, nuff said 🤷♂️ and Dollaruma we couldn’t afford anymore. How exactly are we supposed to do this? Wait 6 years everytime and hope they turn out well?
For all these guys on the Italy team that used to be with us, we ALSO have our Bruscagins, Paloschis and Dinizs and if you don’t know who one or more of these players are then that’s exactly my point. There’s waaaaaaaay more that don’t make it that do. It’s all a gamble really
Also, iirc Roma actually WON Europa Conference League during 2022?
Take also in account that Italy has ZERO wins in World Cups during the last 20 years!! (2 out of the last 3, we didn’t even participate!).
Biased…