Milan, 23 Nov. (LaPresse) – From a minimum of approximately €1,900 to a maximum of over €3,600: this is the cumulative drain suffered in the three-year period 2023-2025 by salaries between €28,000 and €50,000 gross. This is what emerges from a simulation carried out by the Economics Office of the national CGIL trade union, which also highlights how the benefits that the 2026 budget will guarantee to these income brackets, through the reduction of the second IRPEF tax rate from 35% to 33%, will range between €0 and €440 per year. For example, an annual gross income of €30,000 will have suffered a tax drain of €2,807 in the three-year period 2023-2025 and will receive a benefit of just €40 per year from the reduction in the second IRPEF tax rate. In the case of €35,000 gross per annum, there will be benefits of only €140 per annum against a drain of €3,340. Finally, for an annual gross income of €40,000, the drain amounts to €3,639 against a benefit of only €240 per year. Therefore, without neutralising the fiscal drag by indexing IRPEF to inflation, the government is not helping the so-called middle class, but rather favouring and even determining its impoverishment.