Building bonuses, use of 7.8 billion in non-existent credits blocked
Agency Director Vincenzo Carbone spoke at a hearing before the Parliamentary Commission for Surveillance of the Tax Registry
Key points
"As part of its strategy to combat tax offences, the Agenzia delle Entrate ensures that the most serious, most insidious phenomena are monitored, both from the point of view of their diffusion throughout the territory and in terms of lost revenue. For example, in terms of preventive checks on building bonuses, in the 2021-2025 period, approximately nine million communications were screened in the risk analysis activities, resulting in the undue use of non-existent credits for over 7.8 billion, which certainly represents a lower burden on the community,' said the director of the Agenzia Vincenzo Carbone at a hearing before the Parliamentary Commission for the Surveillance of the Tax Registry.
Carbone: "With e-bill from 2019 VAT compliance at 1.7-2 billion"
The introduction of electronic invoicing, explained the director of the Agenzia delle Entrate, "has been a strategic step, the objectives achieved have been multiple: to encourage tax compliance, simplify procedures, reduce evasion in particular of VAT. Starting in 2019 it has produced a compliance effect of between 1.7 billion and 2 billion, while the split payment has guaranteed an overall effect of around 4.6 billion. Again for VAT purposes, suffice it to say that evasion, which in 2015 amounted to 35 billion, has practically halved to 17-18 billion in 2021. Carbone stressed that on electronic invoicing Italy has become "a best practice" at European level.
"Effective compliance, always respecting privacy"
"Last year, for example,' Carbone said, 'we issued three million compliance letters and this allowed us to recover about 4 billion through spontaneous compliance, so it is an efficient and effective measure that serves to put together the data we have, intercept any anomalies and issue compliance letters to signal that there is an anomaly, there are institutes of repentance that you can use'. The director of the Agenzia delle Entrate highlighted that the use of data 'does not take place in an uncontrolled manner, but always in respect of privacy, there is no anti-evasion algorithm but only the possibility of using this data always with human intervention'.
"Agency is not a punter but a service to citizens"
"We must always distinguish between the improper use of certain tools and the effective use of anti-evasion tools, nobody likes the huge tax gap that exists in Italy, evasion,' Carbone concluded, 'is a damage done to the community and to the system, a burden on those who perform their duty and public services are slowed down for the community, we must not always be afraid of improper use, the Inland Revenue is not an entity that is in opposition to the citizen, it is at the service of the citizen, we must avoid conflict, we must overcome the old way of seeing the Agency as a goad to be shot down, we must certainly improve, but the goal is to support the country-system.
