TRENT. The provinces of Trent And Bolzano they are among the most loyal to the tax authorities in Italy: this is underlined by theCGIA research office (Association of Artisans and Small Businesses of Mestre) as part of a more elaborate one analysis on a national scale regarding‘tax evasion and based on data provided by Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Specifically, in Trentino the percentage of tax evasion stands at 8.6% while in South Tyrol the percentage drops to 7.7%, compared to one Italian average equal to 11.2%.
Broadening our gaze, the analysis highlights one situation on the peninsula is anything but rosywith tax evaders who subtract per year, with the latest data referring to 2021, approximately 84 billion of Euro.
In detail, if in absolute terms the lost revenue affects the most populated regions – as the LombardyThe Laziothe Campania and the Venetowhich are also those where the concentration of economic activities is greatest – in percentage termsi, obtained thanks to the ratio between the amount evaded for every hundred euros of tax revenue collected, it emerges instead that the propensity to evade mainly affects the regions of Southern Italy: Calabria is at the top of the ranking with a percentage of 18.4% and follows the Campania at 17.2, the Puglia at 16.8 and the Sicily at 16.5.
Coming to number of Irpef taxpayers in Italy, these are beyond 43 millionof which just over 42 million natural persons and 1.3 million legal persons.
In the province of Trent And Bolzanohowever, are respectively 440,957 and 437,198, while in that of Belluno there are 164,932, with the province of at the top of the particular ranking Rome with its 2.9 million taxpayers and to follow Milan (2,4) e Turin And Naples which both stand at 1.6 million.
Returning to‘tax evasionCgia explains how the Italian financial administration has 190 databases directly connected to each other, archives that “collect a number of data that if, appropriately crossedcould determine with great precision the fiscal loyalty of every taxpayer”.
The question, posed byresearch office of the trade union organisation and which has the flavor of provocation, is this: “If the tax administration has such a detailed tax registrywhy does the economic dimension of tax evasion in Italy still remain very high?”
“If the tax authorities have 190 potential bills for each taxpayer which when put together allow you to photograph accurately the earning capacity, consumption and level of wealth of every Italian – specifies Cgia – It shouldn’t be very difficult track down those who don’t pay and nothing should escape the mesh of our tax system. On one condition, that the operation does not take place outside the legal circuits. Otherwise, it seems, there is no valid database: the tax evader has excellent possibilities to remain unpunished.”
The association then specifies how these databases do not have as their sole objective that of allowing us to combat fiscal infidelity, and that they are tools you need also to develop very complex economic and statistical analyses, estimating the effects of fiscal policies ongoing in a scenario characterized by increasingly interconnected phenomena.
“However, if tax evasion is one of the country’s main problems – is highlighted by Cgia – it is clear that these tools should constitute the essential tool drawer to build a fairer and more equitable tax system”.
