The total number of tax evaders discovered in Italy is increasing, 9,000 in 17 months. Mattarella’s warning

I’m almost 9 thousand (8,924) total uncovered tax evaders by the Guardia di Finanza in Italy in the period from 1 January 2022 to 31 May this year: an increase of 54 percent on the same previous interval, equal to almost 3,000 more people. This was communicated by the police force itself within the operational budget, on the day when the 249th anniversary of its foundation is celebrated. A report that finds its most striking confirmation in the numbers of tax evasion, but which in general restores the complex panorama in which the Gdf operates, to say the least: in fact, the value of the seizures of the assets profiting from the evasion and of the tax fraud, equal to approximately 4.8 billion (against 2.2 billion in the previous period), with over 45 thousand “black” or irregular workers. While, for the Superbonus chapter, the seizure of non-existent credits in the construction sector amounts to 5.4 billion euros. Or, again, the complaints following the checks on the citizen’s income are 18,240, for a sum of over 203 million euros unduly requested or received.

Figures that testify to the extent of the challenge to tax evasion and illegality in Italy, even more so if you try to imagine the gray areas that escaped control. A reality which, of course, can only have a political meaning. And that is why the words of Sergio Mattarellapronounced yesterday in front of the newly elected commander of the Guardia di Finanza Andrew DeGennarotake on the relevance of a general reminder: “Everyone must provide his contribution to the community as required by our Constitution”, said the head of state, in implementation of the principles of “fiscal justice”.

A warning read by some in controversy with the statements of the Minister of Justice, Charles Nordio, who had alluded the day before to a “conciliatory justice which consists in bringing the parties to an agreement when there is no need for severe repression”. With the tax reform which meanwhile continues its process in Parliament: the novelty is the disappearance of the flat tax for self-employed workers, canceled by the same executive with an amendment in the Finance Commission.