Tax bills, the tax truce arrives: this is how it works between scrapping and deadlines

Canceled folders under one thousand euros until 2015

In the first maneuver of the Meloni government, “there are no amnesties”. The Deputy Minister of Economy, Maurizio Leo, interviewed by Corriere, is sure of it: the tax truce is needed to avoid conflictual relations with taxpayers and “there is no room for amnesties”. The goal is to meet those who have had difficulty meeting their commitments with the tax authorities, perhaps due to Covid. But actually, there is a blowout. And it concerns briefcases up to a thousand euros, delivered by the collection agent until 2015. In the text, which will have to be approved by the Chamber and Senate and then sent to Brussels by 30 November, we read in fact: «On 31 January 2023, debts of a residual amount, up to one thousand euros, are automatically cancelled.inclusive of capital, interest for late registration and penalties, resulting from the individual charges entrusted to the collection agents from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2015″.
The folders in question, as the government claims, will never be cashed in and weigh too much on the treasury coffers. The loads entrusted to the Revenue-Collection Agency are worth 1,132 billion euros, but for the Court of Auditors, only 6-7% of these are recoverable. Hence, the decision to remove the pending payments of up to a thousand euros to create a tax system “no longer aggressive and punitive, but fair to those in difficulty”, to quote the words of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. But how does this scrapping work? Can payments be deferred? And for folders from 2016 onwards what happens? Let’s try to answer these and other questions.

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