BOLZANO. Tax evasion in the Trentino Alto Adige region is among the lowest in Italy.
The Tax Office has 190 interconnected databases covering 43.3 million taxpayers and each year stores 2.4 billion electronic invoices and 1.3 billion pieces of information on income and bonuses used by the Revenue Agency to prepare the pre-compiled statements. With such a detailed tax registry, according to the CGIA, it should not be difficult to identify tax evaders. Why, however, does the CGIA ask tax evasion is still very high and amounts to approx 84 billion euros per year? If the tax office has 190 potential tax bills for each taxpayer, it shouldn’t be difficult to track down those who don’t pay. And instead only about twenty billion is recovered. Therefore, according to the CGIA, we know almost everything about who is known to the tax authorities, while we are groping in the dark about tax evaders. For the Mef, tax evasion in Italy is 83.6 billion euros (year 2021 last available).
If in absolute terms the lost revenue affects the most populated regions which are also those where the concentration of economic activities is greatest – such as Lombardy with 13.6 billion euros of lost revenue, Lazio with 9.1, Campania with 7 .8 and Veneto with 6.5 – in percentage terms, obtained thanks to the ratio between the amount evaded for every 100 euros of tax revenue collected, it emerges, however, that the propensity to evade especially affects the regions of Southern Italy: in Calabria it is at 18.4%, in Campania at 17.2, in Puglia at 16.8 and in Sicily at 16.5. The most faithful are there Autonomous Province of Trento with an estimate ofevasion of 8.6%Lombardy with 8% and Autonomous Province of Bolzano with 7.7%. The national average is 11.2%. Italy has 43.3 million taxpayers of which just over 42 million are natural persons and 1.3 million are legal entities.
Among the 107 provinces monitored by the CGIA, Rome has the highest number of Irpef taxpayers: 2.9 million people of which 1.7 million are employees, 904 thousand pensioners and 64,300 subjects with income from participation[. Seguono Milano (2,4 milioni), Torino e Napoli (1,6), Brescia (927.100), Bari (828.500), Bergamo (823 mila) e Bologna (796.700). Infine, sulle società di capitali (Spa, Sapa, Srl, Srl unipersonale, cooperative, etc.), la distribuzione territoriale disponibile è solo regionale e ad ospitarne il maggior numero è la Lombardia con 259.805. Seguono il Lazio (183.800), la Campania (129.300) e il Veneto (106.800).
