An amendment has been made to the controversial Growth Decree, aiming to discourage Italian football clubs packing their teams with foreign imports.
The law was introduced to help bring in new investment and talent from abroad, as well as stemming the brain drain, but also found itself applied to the world of sport.
It allows those who come in from abroad to have massive tax discounts on their salaries for three years after their moves.
Following Italy’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, the authorities were urged to change the rules that effectively make it cheaper and easier for clubs to fill their squads and youth academies with players brought in from outside of the Peninsula.
Today’s amendment hopes to change that, as it sets a limit meaning only those 20 years old and above can benefit from the tax breaks.
It can also no longer be used on salaries lower than €1m, although it is €500,000 for sports like basketball that only recently became professional in Italy.
The AIC (Italian Association of Football Players) declared it was ‘satisfied’ with the changes, although their President Umberto Calcagno hoped this would be “a first step and hopefully not the last.”
Il #DecretoCrescita cambia volto: soglia minima a 1 milione, non potrà essere usato sotto ai 20 anni https://t.co/Ajvqfm27rX pic.twitter.com/QOEyIqKY1T
— calciomercato.com (@cmdotcom) May 9, 2022
Bunch of backward people, So growth decree is the solution to Italian Football problems?
Old community owned stadiums and higher tax for Serie A. Bravo – the politicians in Italy are a bunch of amateurs. Low tax and new club owned stadiums please. ASAP.
Can somebody be as kind as to explain to me how this is going to help anything?
Italy is so corrupt and impossible to live that their children were leaving the country… they have introduced the Growth decree in a desperate attempt to bring them back!
Politicians scr3wed up miserably and the effects will be long term…
Not sure how Italy can afford to give millionaires tax cuts. Not a great way to fund the economy.
Yes it helps attract talent but the rich should never have tax cuts when the poor have a cost of living crisis.
Time to stop being weak and limit foreigners. Time to start making clubs focus on local youth!
And now that Milan got super young talented incl. foreign players, they want to restrict the most promising team. If they push this nonsense through I quit watching Italian football. What a disgrace. Go help clubs to Bild modern stadiums instead of being nationalist. This is club football with millions of foreign supporters like me for god’s sake!
build*
The lack of youth talent has nothing to do with the quality of the youth sector, no it can’t be that. Italy has so much potential but it is run by dinosaurs.
… hoped this would be “a first step and hopefully not the last.”
exactly, keep at it, also push SA to play their kids like what Allegri is now doing with Miretti, play the U19, U21 into SA.
also repair some of the pitches like at Roma.
in other words – bring back the glory days like 80’s, 90’s when SA was the envy of planet Earth.
While I type this I have Mourhino playing in the tiny video to the right side. He should be the Serie A chief and with all his complaining we would get stuff done.
hahaha its funny! you find the solutions, very clever…
hahaha its funny! you find the solutions, very clever…
There is good talent in Italy and it must be promoted. I repeat, Clubs need to do their part just like they did in 70; 80; 90 and 00. Basically, if it isn’t broken, do not fix it so back to Basics and good technical training to get more players like Federico Chiesa, Spina, Verratti, Barella and so forth.
Forza Italia …develop young Italians and jeep foreigners out ! Make Italy Great Again !
I agree with Michele. Cheap foreigners out. Make Italy a Power Again!