The Senate adopted the 2023 budget and the multi-year budget for the three-year period 2023-2025 that had previously cleared the Chamber's investigation with 107 votes in favor out of 178 present and voting, 69 against, and one abstention. The maneuver is now legally binding. Less citizenship income, structural psychologist bonus, and over a billion euros for sports clubs. And the period of smart working, which seemed to be the future during the epidemic, has ended for almost everyone. These are some of the amendments made to the budget bill by Parliament in comparison to the version agreed by the Council of Ministers on November 22. The CDM's original regulations, which include allocating up to 21 of the possible $35 billion to counteracting the excessive cost of energy, are still largely intact in that document. Approximately $3.1 billion will be distributed to the health sector, municipal governments, and local public transportation. Confirmed the extension of the plastic and sugar taxes, the decrease to 5% VAT on children's and female intimate hygiene items (the so-called tampon tax), and the reactivation of the enterprise Stretto di Messina spa in anticipation of a new bridge project. And then there was the pension announcement, the expansion of the flat tax, and the reduction of the tax wedge.
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