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Fisco, sprint start for the 730 precompilato: 1.6 million accesses. 80% with simplified

Revenue Director Vincenzo Carbone at the forum organised by Ansa: the aim is to reduce litigation with taxpayers. No to assessments with artificial intelligence

by Marco Mobili and Giovanni Parente

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Translated by AI
Versione italiana

3' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

Sprint start for the pre-filled 730. In the first three days there were 1.6 million accesses to the dedicated area of the Entrate website. With 80% of taxpayers choosing the simplified mode. Providing the first figures was Revenue Director Vincenzo Carbone, speaking at the forum organised by the Ansa agency, who reiterated that his strategy is to follow a line aimed at reducing disputes with taxpayers.

Do-it-yourself shipments to reach 5.4 million in 2025

For Carbone, the precompilata 'is a story that has evolved over the years, a story of trust'. In the first year, 2015, the subjects that adhered 'were 1.4 million, after a little over 10 years we have 5.4 million subjects that have adhered in 2025'.

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Simplified gains appeal

Carbone pointed out that last year the simplified form was chosen by 60 per cent of the taxpayers who submitted a pre-completed declaration: 'This year, if the figures are confirmed, it will be 80 per cent. In the simplified form 'the taxpayer is guided by the hand in the preparation' and is unlikely to make a mistake.

Data at 1.3 billion

The work to validate the 1.3 billion data that 'come from the tax withholding agent, banks, insurance companies, pharmacies'. To validate them there is a 'great deal of work', the director pointed out. 'There is certainty of the data. This means that the agency no longer chases the taxpayer who has indicated the data in his declaration form, but anticipates that data, makes it available and validates it in advance. There is a relationship that is anticipated with respect to the philosophy of ex post control that was in force until a few years ago', . 'More and more,' he adds, 'the Agency is trying to go towards the taxpayer and put him in the best conditions to fulfil the tax behaviours that are not always easy to carry out'.

Repayments with time reduced from 75 to 68 days

Another chapter addressed by Carbone in the forum promoted by Ansa was that of reimbursements: 'In 2025, we have issued over 26.3 billion in reimbursements' with an increase of over EUR 2 billion and 'we have reduced the average reimbursement time: from 75 days we have dropped to 68 days'. The goal is to 'always improve and reduce repayment times even further. Reduce the 68 days even further'. This is an important and challenging goal 'because it allows us to return to the rightful owner what is his or her property and avoid him or her having to resort to finance and get into debt'.

90 billion evaded, 36.2 recovered by 2025

Then there is the front of the fight against undeclared work. "Evasion, the estimated tax gap is around 90 billion euro. We should make our fellow citizens understand that it is detrimental to everyone'. Last year, 36.2 billion was recovered. "If we were able to recover another 50-60 billion, we could really do so much more with public services for the benefit of the community and affect the tax burden," Carbone adds. "I would be telling a lie if I were to say that I have the feeling that evasion is decreasing, but I am convinced that we are increasingly able to intervene in a capillary and timely manner. The interoperability of the databases allows us to have these results,' observes Carbone, who says he is optimistic: 'With all the tools available to the taxpayer today, I really believe that evasion will decrease in the medium term.

Many taxpayer errors committed in good faith

"So many defaults and so many errors are committed in good faith, sometimes even due to needs outside the taxpayer's precise will. If we are able to intercept all these phenomena in a timely manner, we can concentrate our resources on combating fraud and behaviour that is really organised to evade tax regulations'. Carbone says he is 'convinced' that 'there is no possibility of chasing the taxpayer with ex-post assessments, perhaps applying penalties'. "This I believe has had its day. The agency we must believe in,' he adds, 'is an agency that certainly has a core activity of combating evasion but must be able to provide services to the taxpayer'.

No to assessments with artificial intelligence

'The tax agency will never issue an assessment notice drawn up by artificial intelligence, this must never, ever happen. And if anyone should be responsible for such an action, they will be held accountable'. For Director Carbone, the Agency 'will never be guided by artificial intelligence, there will always be an official who, with his or her professional expertise, will assess the data that we obtain with the use of artificial intelligence'. And it is not generative, but 'only the possibility of putting together different data in a very short time', 'it serves to improve the work, not to determine the results'.

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