Bank contribution in the budget law: Salvini defends it, "common sense, not bullying"

The contribution that the budget law asks from banks and insurers is currently worth 5 billion euros and serves to finance the budget’s coverage. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini called it “an act of common sense” and rejected the idea that it is “an act of bullying”.¹ Salvini added that Parliament would be entitled to raise the figure during the conversion of the bill into law.¹

What Salvini said about the banks’ contribution

The statements came on the sidelines of the Ance event “Programmiamo il futuro” in Rome, in response to the hypothesis of increasing the contribution requested from banks and insurers.¹² For the minister, banks are earning more than last year’s record profits and are growing on the stock market. If they closed the year with 50 billion in profit, he said, then in addition to dividends and the purchase of government bonds, 5 or 6 billion of those profits would end up in the national economy.¹ Salvini argued that the banking sector is growing faster than other sectors thanks to the fees and interest paid by Italians. He added that the institutions are closing branches and laying off employees, and that their profits have no precedent in the history of the Republic.¹ In his view, if a small part of those profits is reinvested to help families, pensioners and businesses, banks should do so “with joy” and without complaining or insulting.¹ On the subject of bullying, Salvini said he did not want to think that some executive of a large bank, when speaking of “bullies”, was referring to members of Parliament.²

What is already decided and what remains open

For now the figure indicated is 5 billion euros. The hypothesis of an increase is on the table, but according to Salvini it would be up to Parliament to decide it during the parliamentary passage of the budget law.¹ On the banking front, Repubblica reports an attempt at a thaw between the premier and the CEO of Intesa, Messina, after his controversial remarks, and a threat of appeals from the Abi. The same newspaper speaks of a duel between Salvini and Tajani over the levy on credit institutions.³

What changes

With Salvini’s words, the issue shifts to Parliament: the minister does not set a new figure, but points to the examination of the law as the place where the contribution could grow.¹

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Footnotes

1. Manovra, Salvini: “Il contributo delle banche? Atto di buon senso e non di bullismo”, agi.it, 2026-11-13 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Manovra, Salvini: “Contributo banche atto di buon senso”, Sky TG24 ↩ ↩²

3. Banche, prove di disgelo tra Meloni e Messina ma l’Abi minaccia ricorsi, la Repubblica, 2026-11-14 ↩