Quasi 930 billion, that is, over half of our GDP: how much the Italian tax authorities failed to collect from 2000 to 2021. What is the money? Of fine and cool unpaid, 87% of the total, which is equivalent to over 1,068 billion. The data comes from an analysis by the Unimpresa Study Center on the effectiveness of collection in our country. For experts, over the past 21 years, the collection system has only cashed in 13% of the amount due, that is 139 billion. But it doesn’t stop there: the results are progressively worsening. According to the association representing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, the collection system it was more effective at the turn of the millennium than in more recent years.
The collection in the year of Covid
From 2000 to 2004, the percentage of sums collected always remained stable above 20% (record in 2000 with 28%), while the worst year, excluding 2020 in which the collection was frozen for the Covid pandemic, was 2019 with 4.3% of the amounts recovered with respect to the total load. In 2020, when the collection activity was stopped by thesanitary emergency due to Covid, in the coffers of the state they arrived, with the collection, alone 177 million, equal to 0.4% of the reference 49 billion for the year.
A business: tax reform is needed
The collection rules must be completely rewritten – comments the vice president of Unimpresa Giuseppe Spadafora – but the restructuring must be included in the tax reform that the government has promised to prepare as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. the time for vertical interventions on single aspects or single areas of a discipline, the tax one, devastated by decades of is over aberrant laws, of cumbersome regulatory mechanisms, of incomprehensible taxation.