Telefisco special, Carbone: 'In 2025, short accesses will quadruple'

Short accesses quadrupled. And over two million compliance letters already sent this year. During the course of Speciale Telefisco, Vincenzo Carbone, the director of the Revenue Agency, described how the financial administration is increasingly focusing on ways to avoid formal assessments and disputes with taxpayers.

'Early warning tools,' explains Carbone, 'continue to be fully utilised. They play a strategic role in promoting spontaneous compliance. To date, more than 2 million compliance letters have already been sent in 2025, which is 75% of the target set in the agreement with the MEF, which provides for 2.7 million letters'.

To these activities must be added others, such as 'the almost 100,000 advance payments on credit assignments. These are induced payments'. But, for Carbone, 'one cannot measure work only on recoveries. I think it is appropriate to keep track of the anti-fraud activity, which ensures less disbursement'. Since the beginning of the year, the use of credits for more than 2.4 billion has been 'suspended, money that was allegedly used illegally in compensation'.

Then there is the subject of the 'ravvedimento operoso'. 'Thanks to the changes that have been made by the reform,' says Carbone, 'it has acquired an important role. According to the latest figures, so far over 3 billion euro has been recovered through the 'ravvedimento operoso' (voluntary repayment) resulting from our activities'.

In addition, the Agency 'is continuing to focus on short accesses, which have quadrupled since last year. It is a tool that will be used more and more, because it allows us to analyse anomalies that emerge from the data in our possession and avoid assessments, files and litigation'.