the scrapping worked – Corriere.it

“There will be no generalized amnesties”, but neither will property taxes, interventions on inheritances or tax increases on land registry and real estate. However, at least for this year, the possibility of deferring the payment of taxes for the self-employed is skipped. The money expected from their payments is all needed immediately, because “there are enormous budgetary difficulties”.

The deadline for the amendments in the Commission has expired (482 have arrived), the Deputy Minister of Economy Maurizio Leo takes stock of the delegation for the tax reform that will return to the House from the Senate next week for the final go-ahead. “There are no hypotheses of generalized amnesty, and the data from the last scrapping, to which 3.8 million taxpayers joined, demonstrates the validity of these instruments” said Leo, recalling that with the balance and excerpt of 2023, 36 million tax bills under one thousand euros, relating to 8 million citizens, have already been cancelled.

Instead, the deputy minister said, the government will intervene to reduce the tax gap, i.e. tax evasion (estimated at between 70 and 100 billion euros a year), “gradually and with determination”, with the two-year composition with creditors, the cooperative fulfilments, and the ex ante definition of the tax risk.

Speaking in the Commission, and then at the conference of young accountants, Leo explained that there will be no new estate or inheritance taxesnor on real estate. There won’t even be a revision of cadastral income, but a new mapping of phantom properties, while Leo clears the field of forced levy on tax evaders, denounced by Matteo Renzi: “A storm – he says – in a glass of water”.

In the meantime, the payment by installments of the balance and Irpef advance for self-employed workers, which the majority has included in the enabling law, has been postponed to next year. Its implementation was already requested this year, but the public finances “are in great difficulty” and do not allow it. «The flow of self-taxation resources», which incidentally this year has been postponed from the end of June to the end of July, «serve all the needs of the public administration» said Leo, explaining that «the third installment of the Pnrr has not yet arrived and will be cut down by half a billion euros».

The same difficult conditions of the public budget are also the reason for the coldness of the Economy on Salvini’s amnestybearing in mind that if any “rebate” were to be applied to taxes, it would have to be covered by other income or lower expenses.

Among the amendments to the tax delegation presented yesterday in the Senate Finance Committee, in any case, there are no new amnesties. “It was a fruitful job and I appreciate that the amendments of all the groups have focused on the merits” says the president, Massimo Garavaglia. The Democratic Party contests the reform in its entirety, rejects the arrangement with creditors and asks for a linear income tax like in Germany and simplified obligations.

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