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Tasca: “It's an amnesty. We guarantee fairness towards those who have paid taxes and fines on time. In Milan, good results from the fight against those who escape"

Milan, June 21 2019 - The Municipality will not adhere to the so-called fiscal peace included in the Government's growth decree. The Administration justifies its no to the amnesty, which for Milan provides for the reduction of sanctions and interest on taxes and traffic fines in the period from 2014 to 2017, for reasons of fairness towards citizens up to date with payments and instead focuses in the fight against tax evasion.

“We are not at all sure that citizens will interpret a full-scale tax amnesty as a tax amnesty,” states Budget Councilor Roberto Tasca, who adds: “Because the government does not combine this amnesty with any new measures to combat tax evasion. tax. In 2017, the Municipality of Milan did not adhere to the amnesty proposed by the centre-left government and, for the same reasons, it does not adhere to this of the yellow-green government either. The coherence of our work responds to the need to guarantee fairness towards those citizens, the majority, who have paid taxes and sanctions on time".

Furthermore, the Administration considers the fight against tax evasion at all levels a necessary commitment given the approximately 100 billion euros of overall tax evasion in Italy. And, thanks to the work of the Tax Office and its consultants, in the last three years it has recovered part of the stolen goods through careful control actions.

Between 2017 and 2018, the TARI, which represents the largest tax in the municipal budget, amounted to 84,3 million euros out of 600 million euros of the total taxable amount over two years. His recovery was 35,5 million euros. The Municipality's estimates predict that in the three-year period 2020-2023 tax evasion in general will amount to 260 million euros (210 only for Imu and Tari and 50 million for Tourist tax, on advertising (ICP) and on land occupation (COSAP). The expected recovery will be 104 million euros, 5 more than in the current three-year period, or 40% of the total collected compared to the 37% obtained to date.

The commitment to recovering tax evasion has been intensified and for the first time the Municipality has started to seize sums of money from the bank accounts of tax evaders. In the current year, 1.180 notifications were issued to the same number of debtors. This is a total tax evasion sum of 3,4 million euros. For the moment the notifications have given positive results in 207 cases who have started to pay the debt for a collection to date of 381 thousand euros.

“A serious government – ​​continues Tasca – should move with the same determination and provide Local Authorities with the most appropriate tools to allow the collection of evaded sums. Since criticizing is easy, while building is difficult, we make three simple proposals to the Government to start towards true 'fiscal peace'".

Here they are: the accessibility of the Single State IT Archive to municipalities to allow them full access to information on taxpayers. The simplification of procedures to allow municipalities not to have to use collection officials, for which state competitions have not been held for years.

Furthermore, Tasca offers free access, even electronically, to all relevant data held by public offices and by entities managing public services, with the right to view them and extract, even in massive form, copies of the documents relating to the assets of the debtors and any co-obligors: in particular social security bodies, the Chambers of Commerce, the Public Automobile Registry, the suppliers of electricity, gas, water, for the purpose of allowing the obtaining of useful information for the activation of the procedures for collecting one's income and the determination of fair rates and tariffs.

“Let's start first from the ISEE in possession of the INPS and from there we build a real fight against tax evasion through the use of Big Data. Only when new measures are adopted to effectively fight against tax evasion will it be possible to close the past by establishing a lasting "fiscal peace", concludes the councilor.