Tax records: Let's start once again. After the stop due to the pandemic, from Friday 16 October, the collection of tax debts will start again. The long-awaited extension of the moratorium was not included in the August decree, definitively approved on Monday in the Chamber, so the State is now back to claiming the debts of Italian businesses and citizens.
The resumption of ordinary collection will not be sudden, but staggered. And it could not be otherwise, given the gigantic amount of backlogs. In all, the IRS must deliver to taxpayers something like nine million tax bills: a task he will complete in six months.
The first to be notified will be the deeds dated March 2020, then gradually it will be the turn of all the other arrears accumulated in the most critical months of the Covid emergency. Most of these roles are of reduced amount: 73% do not exceed one thousand euros, while 15% are in the range between one thousand and 5 thousand euros.
Attention: all this does not mean that the new tax bills they will arrive in seven months. Indeed, for collection, assessment or attachment deeds dated after 15 October 2020, notifications will be sent immediately.
But that's not all. Also from 15 October, the obligation to pay the sums contained in the folders already notified, including those in instalments, also restarts. There is time until 30 November to resume payments suspended during the moratorium.
Only taxpayers who had adhered to an amnesty of the tax bills will have a few more days. The installments frozen this year and related to scrapping or balance and excerpt will be paid by 10 December and there will be no tolerance for latecomers. Anyone who misses the deadline is canceled from the facilitated settlement plan and ordinary collection activities begin again for him.
Meanwhile, from a study by the Council and the National Foundation of the Accountants it emerges that the Italian tax burden "is 5,8% higher than the real one (42,4%)" and therefore exceeds 48%, making our country "the most harassed country in Europe".
After "five years of uninterrupted drop in the tax burden in the Peninsula, in 2019 there was a sharp increase of 0,7 points, which brought the overall level back four years - reads the analysis - But net of the undeclared and of the illegal economy, equal to 12% of the gross domestic product (GDP), or 215 billion euro”, the burdens deriving from taxation reach “48,2% (+5,8% compared to the official one)”.
Result: the OECD indicator that measures the tax wedge “places Italy in the first places in Europe: in third place for single employee, with 48%, and in first place for married employee with two children, with 39,2%”.
