Cgia: "Tax marathon starts, 270 deadlines up to the end of the month"

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September 12, 2020 Among the payments that have been extended in recent months due to Covid and the ordinary obligations set out in the calendar, from next Wednesday until the end of the month, Italians will have to extricate themselves from a real fiscal jungle consisting of 270 deadlines.

The CGIA Studies Office reports this with a press release, specifying that taxpayers will not be called upon to honor them all, but between payments, communications, obligations, industrious repentances, declarations and requests to be presented to the Treasury, many will spend "very stressful days" .

"Asking us for the bill", the CGIA continues, we will think, in particular, of VAT, social security contributions Ires, Irap and the balance / advance on Irpef (the latter for those who have opted for the installment) , etc.

The most difficult day will be next September 16 when the taxman will ask us for 187 payments and the presentation of 2 communications and 3 obligations.

"From next Wednesday - says the coordinator of the Studies Office Paolo Zabeo - a real fiscal marathon will start. For 15 days we will have no respite and businesses, especially small ones, will be subjected to a heavy levy. The tangle of deadlines stretched by the treasury will leave us no way out and pending the tax simplification and the much-needed tax cut, the only certainty we can count on is that once again we will have to put a heavy hand on our wallet ".

It is necessary to cut taxes and provide more credit.

The CGIA points out that the need to have a simpler, less expensive and fairer tax system is now felt by everyone.

Above all by national political leaders, even if in the last 20 years the promises have not followed the facts.

"Only with a drastic tax cut and a strong injection of liquidity - declares the secretary Renato Mason - can we concretely help the world of micro and small businesses. Otherwise, we risk an unprecedented death that will desertify many production areas and as many historic centers. small and large cities, undermining the social cohesion which in this country is the pillar on which our economy is based. To avoid all this, however, we need to act quickly ".

"Many artisans and small traders are exhausted and can still recover if we are able to give them answers in a reasonably short time. That is, allowing them to pay much less taxes, have less bureaucracy and have sufficient financial resources. to overcome this situation of serious difficulty ". 

For the deadlines postponed to September 16, payments are facilitated.

Among the 187 payments to be honored by next Wednesday (16 September), 13 are those that have been suspended in recent months following the health crisis caused by Covid.

Please note that with the August decree (in the process of converting the law) a further partial extension is envisaged for these 13 deadlines according to the following methods: 50 percent of the amount due can be paid in a single solution by 16 September or in 4 monthly installments of the same amount (the first of which is on September 16th);

the remaining 50 percent of the amount due can be paid in installments at most in 24 monthly installments of the same amount, with the payment of the first installment starting from January 16, 2021.

In the last 40 years, taxes increased by 11 points, continues the CGIA.

The Studies Office of the has also reconstructed the historical series of the tax burden registered in Italy.

Over the past 40 years, the latter has risen by 11 percentage points.

If in 1980 it was 31.4 per cent, in 2019 it stood at 42.4 per cent.

In this period, the peak was reached in 2013, when the withdrawal reached the threshold of 43.4 percent.

A level reached following the tightening of taxation imposed by the Monti government which reintroduced the tax on the first home, increased INPS contributions on self-employed workers, tightened the tax levy on instrumental properties, revised up the car tax, etc.

On the tax burden in 2020 we must wait for the Nadef.

For the current year, the CGIA says, it is extremely difficult to predict how much the tax burden will be.

It is most likely destined to increase, not so much due to an increase in tax revenues, but due to the sharp contraction in GDP which, compared to 2019, should fall by 10 percent.

We recall, in fact, that the tax burden is the result of the relationship between tax revenues and gross domestic product.

The Update of the Def that will be presented to the Chambers in the coming weeks will clarify the question.

Tax bureaucracy costs SMEs 3 billion a year In addition to taxes, the CGIA concludes, in Italy the problem is also the weight of tax oppression that hinders the daily activity of companies: 270 deadlines in 15 days scheduled for this month are definitely too many. Net of the tariffs applied by the accountants for keeping company accounts, according to a survey carried out periodically by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the cost of the tax bureaucracy for entrepreneurs (obligations, declarations, certification of payments, keeping of records, etc. ), amounts to around 3 billion euros per year. A cost that penalizes above all small entrepreneurs who, unlike medium and large companies, do not have administrative structures within the company capable of dealing with this situation.