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05 November 2019The long process of the Budget law has today stopped off in the Finance Committee of the Chamber. The opportunity for Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri to point out how and what he expects from the passage of the Maneuver in Parliament: "It is useful to work for the improvement of the norm, but for the whole of the measures it will be good that no steps are taken back on the front of the seriousness and incisiveness of measures to combat tax evasion and avoidance ".

Modernizing payment system
A decisive incipit that led the minister to motivate the choices made by the majority, starting from cashless payments: "The size of the incentives is stronger than the disincentives, the aim is to modernize the payment system which is an important element to reduce tax evasion It has always been said that this is a declaimed goal, but then scarcely pursued, it is clear that when these rules are introduced there is a debate ", but from the government there is" the political determination to make on the serious in the fight against tax evasion and tax avoidance, which is the condition for seriously safeguarding our welfare state, reducing taxes on work and business, strengthening public investments, if Italy does not seriously address this problem it will never solve its structural problems, I therefore call on Parliament to work to improve and refine the measures, but at the same time I expect it to support this commitment orte of the government ".

3.1 billion from the fight against tax evasion
"Overall, these measures to combat evasion guarantee revenues of 3.1 billion in 2020, including of course the measures on the games. To this is added a further measure prudently estimated of 100 million in the Budget law. So we are facing a realistic figure, not the 7 billion mentioned above, but I also consider this estimate prudent ". "The maneuver reduces the tax burden that you had increased," added Minister Gualtieri in response to a member of the Lega who then recalled that the government had deactivated VAT increases introduced by the previous executive.

A fairer and more efficient system
The fiscal decree "aims to promote the creation of a more efficient and equitable tax system that reconciles the needs of recovering inefficient pockets. The pursuit of these aims is articulated through two directions: the first focuses on a system of incentives and disincentives that favor a greater use of electronic payment instruments, favoring modernization and thereby increasing the degree of tax compliance as well.The second guideline aims to increase the fairness and sustainability of the tax system with systemic actions to combat tax evasion and fraud which constitute the basis of the work on which the government is already engaged by this maneuver and which intends to continue to reduce the tax burden on workers and businesses ".

Contracts withheld
"We are ready to dialogue with trade associations and with Parliament to improve the law and be certain that, on the one hand, it is able to strike the offenses more effectively, more targeted, which are extremely widespread and on the other On the other hand, we can better define the scope of application. We are aware, of course - he observed, referring to the offenses related to the non-payment of contributions - that on the one hand it is a phenomenon that the legislator cannot ignore and which must contrast, on the other that this mechanism in hitting those who get rich behind the State and their employees it is good that it does not harm healthy businesses ". Among the possibilities for improvement, Gualtieri proposed "for example, to limit the application to the supply of labor, instead of all the procurement and subcontracting and reliance mechanisms and perhaps expanding the scope of the exclusion clauses that already exist".

Italy cashless
Summarizing the measures of the "Italia cashsless" plan that "aims to give a strong boost to electronic payments and to discourage the use of cash, with proportionality and graduality", Gualtieri cited the lottery of the receipts, the superbonus, the special prizes. With regard to the exhibitors, he said: "We are committed to a memorandum of understanding for the reduction of commissions and the total elimination below a certain threshold". The tax law decree contains '' specific incentives for merchants '' with assets of up to 400,000 euros, consisting of '' a 30% tax credit for transactions, in order to mitigate the costs incurred for electronic payments '' .

Fisco friend
"The tax bill represents the part of a package aimed at leading the Italian economy on a path of growth, in the sustainability of public finance". "The aim is to promote the creation of a more efficient and equitable tax system. I strongly believe in tax protection rather than speed cameras and this requires a commitment on the part of everyone. The State administration must do everything possible to support a simple tax friend. tax payers who accompany you in compliance ". In the detail of the rules on the fight against undue compensation, he adds, "in terms of cost-benefit" the measure can "be deepened and studied in detail but politically I would defend it and I think it should remain". And then, on the escalation of the penal sanctions in tax matters introduced with the Tax Decree, he added: "The penalties are not changed. The threshold of punishment is lowered respectively from 150 thousand to 100 thousand euros and from 250 thousand to 150 thousand euros" .

Savings
"I think it is appropriate to think about how to revitalize the Pir", the individual savings plans launched by the then Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, "reflecting on a better channeling of private savings".

Ex Ilva
The case of the former Ilva "is a complex and serious game" where the competition is needed and the unitary support of the country to address an issue that must be resolved positively. The government is committed, I think the whole country should be committed " and there is no "at this stage" a "distinction of the positions of individuals", he explains, reporting that tomorrow there will be an "important" meeting on the case.