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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea

22 May 2021 The Tax Office has 161 cards on each of us that report our income capacity, consumption and level of wealth. This was revealed by the Studies Office of the CGIA of Mestre, specifying that it is a theoretical and provocative datum, since every day the Financial Administration receives and catalogs billions of data of all kinds which, however, only a small part succeeds in " use ", in particular, to combat tax evasion.



The tax machine has a Tax Information System (SIF) made up of 161 databases that should begin to communicate with each other. The CGIA points out that those who are "registered" suffer from a fiscal oppression that has no equal in the rest of Europe, while those who "wallow" in the underground economy have very little chance of being discovered and sanctioned.



The numbers of tax evasion

Every year the tax evaders steal almost 110 billion euros from the tax authorities and the 007s of the tax authorities, in the pre-Covid period, managed to recover between 18 and 20 billion. The Artisans and Small Businesses Association highlights how potentially everything is known about who is known to the tax authorities, while groping in the dark towards those who are not. The CGIA recalls that databases are tools that also serve to elaborate very complex economic and statistical analyzes, estimating the effects of the fiscal policies in progress in a scenario characterized by increasingly interconnected phenomena. However, if tax evasion is one of the country 's main problems, it is clear that these tools should be indispensable for building a fairer and fairer taxation. 



The 161 fiscal databases include: games, remote betting, sports betting, lotteries, monopolies, tobacco, anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, concessions, refunds, liquidations, VAT, tax returns, VAT and Irap declarations, electronic invoicing, urban cadastre, real estate auctions, real estate market, vehicles, registry and succession, local taxes, excise duties, bank or postal coordinates. Everything is tracked, unless the transaction takes place outside the legal circuits. So, there is no database that holds: the tax evader has a very good chance of going unpunished, evaluates the Cgia Research Office. 



Less taxes and abolition of the balance / deposit system

If the presence of a large number of integrated data is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to truly put the tax authorities at the service of the citizen, it is equally essential for the CGIA to take action at least on other fronts:

reduce the tax burden

, perhaps resetting it for the current year to all small businesses;

simplify the tax system

, especially for our SMEs. The CGIA hopes, on the occasion of the next tax reform, that

the current system of

advances and balances

will be

eliminated

, allowing companies to pay taxes only on what they actually collected. A transparency operation that would make it possible to move from a system of withdrawal on presumed collections to one on actual collections, eliminating not only the system of the balance and advance payment, but also the formation of tax credits and the consequent expectation, by companies, of the tax refunds that often come with unjustifiable delays.



The 161 fiscal databases belong to the Department of Finance, the Customs and Monopolies Agency, the State Property Agency, the Revenue-Collection Agency, the Revenue Agency.