  We consider local weak solutions of widely degenerate or singular elliptic
PDEs of the type \begin{equation*} -\,\mathrm{div}\left((\vert
Du\vert-\lambda)_{+}^{p-1}\frac{Du}{\vert Du\vert}\right)=f \,\,\,\,\,\,\,
\text{in}\,\,\Omega, \end{equation*} where $\Omega$ is an open subset of
$\mathbb{R}^{n}$ for $n\geq2$, $\lambda$ is a positive constant and
$(\,\cdot\,)_{+}$ stands for the positive part. We establish some higher
differentiability results, under essentially sharp conditions on the datum $f$.
Our results improve the one contained in [8] for $\lambda=0$ and $p>2$, and
give back a result similar to that in [12] for $1 < p \le 2$.
