Tax, evasion appears in the reform “out of necessity” (and will not be sanctioned) – Corriere.it

Tick ​​the concept of evasion of necessity in the tax reform that will be implemented after the go-ahead from the Council of Ministers to the draft law. With the aim of establishing a new relationship of trust between the State and the taxpayer, the reform seems to differentiate between fraudulent and fraudulent tax evaders. How writes the Only 24 Hours the goal is to eliminate criminal penalties for non-payments when it emerges the impossibility of meeting the payment of the tax to prevent the taxpayer from being convicted of crimes even in the event of facts not attributable to him. The objective economic difficulty in meeting the obligations could therefore affect, a difficulty that will be demonstrated by the tax payer. A possible case could be the entrepreneur in crisis who declares the right but does not pay the taxes in order to be able to pay the salaries to the employees.

The sanctions

In the chapter of the enabling law referring to penalties, it is envisaged to review the profiles relating to the effective existence of the subjective element, in the event of the impossibility to meet the payment of the tax, not dependent on facts attributable to the subject himself, in order to prevent the taxpayer from having to suffer criminal consequences even in the event of facts not attributable to him. Among the proposals, the text still being defined in view of the CDM, also greater protections for those who undertake plans for the repayment of debts with the tax authorities.

Knots and controversies

The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, answering the question time in the Chamber explained that for the tax reform: The cardinal principles are basically three: reduction of the tax burden, a new relationship between the State and the taxpayer who is no longer vexatious but equal and collaborative is a real one fight against tax evasiongiven that the measures adopted so far, data in hand, do not seem to have had great effects.

The leader of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, criticizes the reform: If we think of Irpef, the lack of involvement of the union is even more serious: out of about 41 million taxpayers, 22 million are employees and 14.5 million are pensioners, a total of 36 million and a half people, almost 90%. A fortiori a preventive comparison would have been necessary. Not to mention, he concludes, the fight against tax evasion that has disappeared from the radar. Luigi Sbarra, general secretary of the Cisl, complains of a problem of method, because it seems wrong to us to convene the social partners and the union a few hours before the Council of Ministers.